{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automated-vehicles-act-2024/section-81",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automated-vehicles-act-2024/section-81.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/10",
  "legislation_title": "Automated Vehicles Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automated-vehicles-act-2024",
  "path": "section/81",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "81",
  "heading": "Interpretation and supplementary provision",
  "text": "(1) In sections 78 and 79—\n“end-user”, in relation to a vehicle, means a person who uses the vehicle on a road or other public place other than for commercial purposes to do with the development, manufacture or supply of the vehicle;\n“equipment” has the same meaning as in Part 1 (see section 44(1));\n“product” includes software.\n(2) For the purposes of those sections, a communication is to be taken to be directed at an end-user or potential end-user of a vehicle if it is directed at a class of persons likely to include such a person.\n(3) An offence under those sections can be committed anywhere in the world.\n(4) Schedule 5 makes provision about the enforcement of sections 78 and 79.\n(5) If section 78 or 79 comes into force before paragraph 5 of Schedule 2, it is to be read as if any reference to an authorised automated vehicle included a vehicle listed under section 1 of the Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 81 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 99(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/731",
      "affecting_title": "The Automated Vehicles Act 2024 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/10/section/81",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:48:23.238587+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}