Automated Vehicles Act 2024

6 Authorised self-driving entities

(1) The Secretary of State must impose authorisation requirements designed to secure that, in respect of each automated vehicle authorisation, a person is designated as the “authorised self-driving entity” for the authorised vehicle at all times.

(2) Authorisation requirements may include requirements that a person has to satisfy in order to be, or remain, an authorised self-driving entity.

(3) The Secretary of State must impose authorisation requirements designed to secure, so far as the Secretary of State considers reasonably practicable, that the following objectives are met.

(4) The objectives are—

(a) that an authorised self-driving entity should have general responsibility for ensuring that an authorised automated vehicle continues to satisfy the self-driving test by virtue of its authorised automation features, and

(b) that an authorised self-driving entity should be—

(i) of good repute,

(ii) of good financial standing, and

(iii) capable of competently discharging any authorisation requirements imposed on it for the purposes of paragraph (a).

(5) Authorisation requirements may include requirements as to the payment of fees by authorised self-driving entities for the grant or continuation of an automated vehicle authorisation.