Part 1: Regulatory scheme for automated vehicles Chapter 1: Authorisation of road vehicles for automated use Section 9: Further provision about variation, suspension and withdrawal
Section 9 sets out further provisions which apply both to the variation, suspension and withdrawal of authorisation and to the conditions attached to an authorisation, which may be varied, added to or omitted (subsection (1)).
	Subsections (2) and (3) set out that a variation may be temporary or permanent, and that any variation must be within the boundaries of authorisation – i.e., the original authorisation could have been granted with the requirements as varied.
	Subsection (4) is self-explanatory.
	Subsection (5) sets out that when an authorisation is suspended, any vehicle to which the authorisation applied cannot be marketed as an automated vehicle (see sections 78-79 under Part 4 ‘Marketing restrictions’). It also sets out that there cannot be a ‘user-in-charge' of a vehicle for which authorisation has been suspended (see section 46, ‘Meaning of "user-in-charge"’), and further, that a NUiC feature can no longer be considered as authorised for purposes of the offence under new section 34B (see section 53, ‘Use of vehicle without driver or licensed oversight’). A vehicle for which authorisation has been suspended can only be driven as a conventional vehicle; the human driver is therefore responsible for the vehicle at all times and any immunity that applies to a user-in-charge does not apply. Under these circumstances the driver must understand that their responsibilities with respect to the behaviour of the vehicle have resumed. This is considered in subsection (8) (see below).
	Subsection (6) sets out that a ‘relevant authorisation measure’ takes effect from the moment the notice is issued to the ASDE or at a time specified within the notice itself. Subsection (7) clarifies that a ‘relevant authorisation measure’ is: the variation, suspension or withdrawal of an authorisation; a reversal of a variation; the lifting of a suspension; or restoration of a withdrawn authorisation.
	Subsection (8) requires the Secretary of State to ensure that authorisation requirements are designed in such a way that, in the event of variation, suspension or withdrawal, they reduce the likelihood of an individual unwittingly doing anything that is no longer in scope of authorisation. For example, to reduce the chance of an individual using a self-driving feature when it is no longer legal to do so a feature might be deactivated remotely.