Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]: HL Bill 1 of 2023–24
Type: Lords Library Note (LLN-2023-0045) The Automated Vehicles Bill would put into place measures announced in the 2023 King’s Speech to set up a legal framework to enable self-driving cars in the UK. It would establish a regulatory regime for authorising the vehicles, deal with criminal liability and marketing restrictions and allow for automated passenger services, among other things.
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]HL Bill 1 of 2023–24 - House of Lords Library
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Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
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The
Automated Vehicles Bill
[HL]
is a government bill introduced in the House of Lords at the beginning of the 2023–24 parliamentary session. Its second reading in the House of Lords is due to take place on 28 November 2023.
The bill would put measures announced in the 2023 King’s Speech in place. In the speech, the government said it would “deliver one of the world’s most comprehensive legal frameworks for self-driving vehicles, with safety at its core”.
The bill would implement the legal framework to enable self-driving vehicles recommended by the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commission, which was then taken up in a government policy paper published in August 2022. It would build on measures in the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 concerning insurance. The bill would:
create a regulatory framework for automated vehicles
establish criminal liability for vehicle use
address policing and investigation
set conditions about the marketing of automated vehicles
set up a system for granting permits for automated passenger services
specify how existing regimes would be adapted to accommodate the measures
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Documents to download
Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]
(614 KB
, PDF)
Download full report
Download ‘Automated Vehicles Bill [HL]’ report (614 KB
, PDF)
Supporting documents
Large print briefingAutomated Vehicles Bill [HL]
Large print briefingAutomated Vehicles Bill [HL]
(1 MB
, PDF
)
(1 MB
, PDF)
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