Section 37 Regulations.C1
United Kingdom
Regulations under this Act may be made generally for the purpose of carrying this Act (except section 31) into effect and may—
provide for exemptions from any provisions of the regulations; and
contain such incidental F3, consequential and supplemental provisions as the Secretary of State considers expedient for the purposes of the regulations;
and nothing in any other provision of this Act shall be construed as prejudicing the generality of the foregoing provisions of this subsection.
Regulations under this Act except regulations under section 2(5) or 11(3) may provide that a person who contravenes or fails to comply with any specified provision of the regulations shall be guilty of an offence and a person guilty of such an offence shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of an amount not exceeding—
in the case of regulations prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph, of regulations made under section 24 or of a contravention or failure to comply with requirements imposed in pursuance of section 23(1)(a), level 3 on the standard scale;
in any other case, F7level 1 on the standard scale.
The prescribing of regulations for the purposes of subsection (3)(a) shall not affect the punishment for a contravention of or failure to comply with those regulations before they were so prescribed.
Any power to make regulations which is exercisable by the Secretary of State by virtue of section F9. . . F1018B(3),20, 23 or 24 of this Act includes power to provide by the regulations that any document for which provision is made by the regulations shall be in such form and contain such particulars as may be specified by a person specified in the regulations.
Any power to make regulations conferred on the Secretary of State by this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument which, except in the case of a statutory instrument containing only regulations made under section 7(4) or (5) or 38(5) of this Act, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in s. 37(1)(a) inserted (3.5.1994) by 1994 c. 9, s. 5, Sch. 2 para. 17(2)(a)
- F2
Words in s. 37(1)(a) inserted (1.10.1991) by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 107:2), s. 10, Sch. 3, Pt. I, para. 18; S.I. 1991/2021, art. 2
- F3
Words in s. 37(1)(c) inserted (3.5.1994) by 1994 c. 9, s. 5, Sch. 2 para. 17(2)(b)
- F4
Words inserted by Finance Act 1985 (c. 54, SIF 107:2), s. 9(2)
- F5
Words in s. 37(2) substituted (3.5.1994) by 1994 c. 9, s. 5, Sch. 2 para. 17(3)
- F6
S. 37(3)(a) substituted by Finance Act 1987 (c. 16, SIF 107:2), s. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 18(2)
- F7
Words substituted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), ss. 289F, 289G
- F8
S. 37(3A) inserted by Finance Act 1987 (c. 16, SIF 107:2), s. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 18(3)
- F9
Words in s. 37(4) repealed (3.5.1994) by 1994 c. 9, s. 258, Sch. 26 Pt. I(3)
- F10
Words in s. 37(4) inserted (prosp.) by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 107:2), s. 9(5)(6)
Modifications
- C1
S. 37 extended by Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52, SIF 107:1), ss. 143(4), 156
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
- F1
Act repealed (1.9.1994) by 1994 c. 22, ss. 65, 66(1), Sch. 5 Pt. I (with s. 57(4))