Part 1: Regulatory scheme for automated vehicles Chapter 7: Supplementary provision Section 42: Protection of information
This section protects information obtained by a person (which may include insurers or other private businesses) as a result of authorisation requirements, further to the Secretary of State’s exercise of their investigative powers or further to regulations under section 40 (subsection (1). Subsection 2 is self-explanatory, defining the term "the recipient". Subsection (4) makes it an offence for the recipient of such information to use it for purposes other than those for which it was obtained; or disclose it to another person except as authorised by regulations made by the Secretary of State under subsection (3).
	Subsection (5) sets out defences to the unlawful disclosure offence including consent from the person from whom the information was obtained, reasonable belief in the lawfulness of the disclosure or that the information had already been lawfully disclosed.
	Subsection (6) is self-explanatory.
	Subsection (7) protects commercially sensitive information by providing a presumption that it should be excluded from any disclosures authorised in this Part.