Part 1: Haulage Policy Background Section 3: Temporary exemptions
Section 3 provides for the Secretary of State to authorise in regulations temporary exemptions from the requirement to carry a permit for UK goods vehicles (under section 1(1)) in an emergency or to enable some other special need to be dealt with.
	Subsection (2) provides that the regulations may allow for temporary exemptions to take effect by giving written notice to the operator of the goods vehicle or by publishing a notice specifying the description of goods vehicles to which the temporary exemption applies.
	Subsection (3) states that the regulations must specify the vehicle or class of vehicles to which the exemption relates and the journeys which are covered by the exemption.