{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-act-1968/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-act-1968/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/59",
  "legislation_title": "Hovercraft Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-act-1968",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the following enactments, that is to say—\n(a) the definition of “vessel” in section 2 of the Dockyard Port Regulation Act 1865;\n(b) the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928;\n(c) the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929;\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) section 2(1) of the Docking and Nicking of Horses Act 1949; and\n(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nany reference to a ship shall include a reference to a hovercraft, and any reference to the master of a ship in the said Acts of 1928, 1929 . . . shall be construed accordingly; and in section 10 of the said Acts of 1928 and 1929 the references to aircraft shall include references to hovercraft.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 1(d) repealed by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 82), s. 52(8), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Para. 1(f) repealed by Immigration Act 1971 (c. 77), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Immigration Act 1971 (c. 77), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1865 c. 125."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1928 c. 32."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1929 c. 13(N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1949 c. 70."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/59/schedule/paragraph/1",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}