{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-application-of-enactments-order-1972/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-application-of-enactments-order-1972/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/971",
  "legislation_title": "The Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-application-of-enactments-order-1972",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“Captain” means the person who is designated by the operator to be in charge of a hovercraft during any journey, or, failing such designation, the person who is for the time being lawfully in charge of the hovercraft;\n“Hovertrains” means hovercraft which are at all times guided by tracks, rails or guides fixed to the ground;\n“Navigable water” means any water which is in fact navigable by ships or vessels, whether or not the tide ebbs and flows there, and whether or not there is a public right of navigation in that water;\n(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/971/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:29:43.583321+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}