Part 6: Adaptation of existing regimes Section 93: Provision of information about traffic regulation measures
Traffic regulation orders (TROs) are the legal orders made by traffic regulation authorities that set the rules around a road’s use or its design. They contain information about, for example, the location and times of use of bus lanes or parking bays, speed limits, height and width restrictions, and temporary road closures for street and road works. The data contained in TROs is a valuable data set and is needed for autonomous vehicles. The data, for example, means that information on the legal parameters of the road can be built into the vehicle and is available to support the safe operation of vehicles.
	Subsection (1) allows the Secretary of State to make regulations that require traffic regulation authorities in England to provide data about the TROs that they make.
	Subsection (2) allows Welsh Ministers to make regulations that require traffic regulation authorities to provide prescribed information about a relevant traffic regulation measure for an area in Wales.
	Subsections (3) and (4) provide definitions of what is meant by a traffic regulation authority and set out details of the different types of TROs to which the regulations will apply. These are permanent TROs, experimental TROs, temporary TROs, temporary traffic regulation notices, speed limit orders, and special event orders.
	Subsection (5) allows the Secretary of State or Welsh Ministers to prescribe any information that they think is necessary to make available to autonomous vehicles or the electronic equipment designed to undertake or facilitate the driving of other vehicles on roads.
	Subsection (6) clarifies that subsection (5) applies not only to any information provided in accordance with regulations made under this section, but that it also applies to any information provided in accordance with previous regulations which have been amended by regulations made under this section.
	Subsection (7) provides that the regulations must specify the type of data that needs to be provided, the format in which it must be provided, when it needs to be provided, and to whom it needs to be provided.
	Subsection ((8) states that data provided under subsection (7)(c) must be in the specified model, standard and format required by the Secretary of State or Welsh Ministers, as updated from time to time, for example, as the technology develops.
	Subsection (9) provides that the regulations may be applied to TROs made before the regulations came into force and this Act was passed.