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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-hovercraft-application-of-enactments-amendment-order-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348273151",
  "legislation_title": "The Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-hovercraft-application-of-enactments-amendment-order-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1350) (“the 1989 Order”), which makes provision for specified primary and secondary maritime legislation to apply to hovercraft as it applies to ships.\nArticle 2(2) amends article 2 of the 1989 Order (which makes provision in relation to inquiries and investigations into hovercraft casualties) to substitute references to legislation which has been repealed with references to the corresponding extant provisions. For the purposes of the application of the Merchant Shipping (Formal Investigations) Rules 1985 to hovercraft subject to modifications, article 2(6) retains Part C of Schedule 1 to the 1989 Order subject only to substituting the original provision with an updated version.\nArticle 2(3) amends article 3 of the 1989 Order (which makes provision in relation to prevention of pollution by hovercraft) to substitute references to legislation which has been repealed with references to the corresponding extant provisions.\nArticle 2(4) amends article 4 of the 1989 Order (which makes provision in relation to the safety of hovercraft) to replace references to sections of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 with references to those sections of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (“the 1995 Act”) which superseded them.\nArticle 2(5) inserts new articles 6 and 7 into the 1989 Order.\nThe effect of new article 6 is to apply the powers in section 302 of the 1995 Act to hovercraft. This will enable fees to be prescribed in respect of a range of actions which may be taken in relation to hovercraft and to persons connected with hovercraft.\nThe effect of new article 7 is to apply the powers in section 306A of the 1995 Act to hovercraft. This will ensure that, where secondary legislation applies, by virtue of the 1989 Order, in relation to hovercraft and to persons connected with hovercraft and contains references to international conventions or treaties that are ambulatory references by virtue of section 306A, those references are ambulatory not only for the purposes of the application of that secondary legislation to ships and to persons connected with ships but also for the purposes of its application to hovercraft and to persons connected with hovercraft.\nArticle 2(7) omits Parts A and B of Schedule 1, and Schedule 2, to the 1989 Order.\nA full impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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