Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 section 22

Registration regulations

Section 22 sets out the broad powers of the Secretary of State to make regulations governing the registration of vehicles, the management of registration documents, the sharing and sale of register data, and the obligations on vehicle keepers and sellers to provide information.

• The Secretary of State may make regulations covering all aspects of vehicle registration, including the form of the register, the issue, transfer, surrender, replacement and destruction of registration documents, and the charging of reasonable fees for replacements.
• Anyone involved in selling or disposing of a vehicle must provide prescribed particulars to the Secretary of State and, where required, hand over the relevant registration document to the buyer within a prescribed timeframe.
• Anonymised data derived from the vehicle register may be sold to persons the Secretary of State considers appropriate, on terms and at prices the Secretary of State thinks fit, provided the information does not identify any individual.
• Where a vehicle licence is not renewed — whether by the registered keeper, the person keeping the vehicle, or anyone keeping an unlicensed vehicle in the United Kingdom — that person must furnish prescribed particulars and declarations within the time and in the manner set by regulations.