Part 1: Regulatory scheme for automated vehicles Chapter 6: Other regulatory powers and duties Section 40: Power to require reports from police and local authorities
This section supports the duty in section 39 to investigate automated vehicle incidents that may invoke regulatory consequences. It permits the Secretary of State to make regulations requiring a chief officer of police and the other authorities specified in section 40(3) to report relevant incidents (as defined in section 39) that occur within their police force or authority area. The description of the types of incidents that the police or authority should report will be set out in regulations.
	Subsection (4) states that regulations made under this section must be drafted with the intention that only incidents with potential regulatory consequences will be reported. This aims to restrict the reporting requirement to only those reports necessary for investigating the need for regulatory sanctions and hence avoid an undue burden on police and the specified authorities.
	Subsections (5), (6) and (7) are self-explanatory.