Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 section 57

Regulations

Section 57 sets out the Secretary of State's powers to make regulations for the purposes of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994, including the scope, flexibility, and parliamentary procedures applicable to those regulations.

• The Secretary of State has broad power to make regulations to give effect to the Act, including the ability to make different provision for different cases, circumstances, or parts of the United Kingdom.
• Regulations may include incidental, consequential, and supplemental provisions, and may provide for exemptions, except that regulations concerning retention or sale of registration marks (sections 26 and 27) may not vary by region or grant exemptions.
• Regulations covering certain registration and marking matters may delegate the specification of document forms and required particulars to a person prescribed in the regulations themselves.
• All regulations under the Act must be made by statutory instrument and are subject to the negative resolution procedure (annulment by either House of Parliament), except for certain regulations under section 7A relating to supplements payable when a vehicle ceases to be appropriately covered.