Section 38 — General monitoring duty

(1) The Secretary of State must put in place arrangements that the Secretary of State considers effective and proportionate for monitoring and assessing the general performance of authorised automated vehicles on roads and other public places in Great Britain.

(2) Those arrangements must, in particular, include monitoring and assessing the extent to which that performance is consistent with the statement of safety principles.

(3) The Secretary of State must, as soon as practicable after the end of each reporting period, publish a report setting out the Secretary of State’s conclusions from the monitoring and assessment undertaken in accordance with this section.

(4) For the purposes of this section, each of the following periods is a “reporting period”—

(a) the period of 12 months beginning with the month in which the first grant of an automated vehicle authorisation takes effect, and

(b) each subsequent period of 12 months.