{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automated-vehicles-marketing-restrictions-regulations-2026/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automated-vehicles-marketing-restrictions-regulations-2026/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/733",
  "legislation_title": "The Automated Vehicles (Marketing Restrictions) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/automated-vehicles-marketing-restrictions-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Restricted terms",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), each of the following terms is a restricted term—\n(a) automated;\n(b) automated driving;\n(c) autonomous;\n(d) autonomous driving;\n(e) drive autonomously;\n(f) drive itself;\n(g) driverless;\n(h) self-driving.\n(2) The terms at sub-paragraphs (a) and (c) of paragraph (1) are restricted terms only when used to describe—\n(a) a vehicle as a whole, or\n(b) the overall driving functionality or capability of a vehicle.\n(3) A term listed in paragraph (1) includes—\n(a) variants of the term resulting from its assignment to a different part of speech, and\n(b) other grammatical forms of the term.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Restricted term” has the meaning given by section 78(8) of the Automated Vehicles Act 2024 (c. 10)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/733/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:58:45.433238+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."
}