# Automated Vehicles Act 2024, Section 81: Interpretation and supplementary provision

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) In sections 78 and 79—
“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;
“equipment” has the same meaning as in Part 1 (see section 44(1));
“product” includes software.
(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.
(3) An offence under those sections can be committed anywhere in the world.
(4) Schedule 5 makes provision about the enforcement of sections 78 and 79.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/10/section/81 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/automated-vehicles-act-2024/section-81
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