{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-application-of-enactments-order-1972/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-application-of-enactments-order-1972/note.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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order applies to hovercraft, with modifications, a number of enactments and instruments relating to ships, aircraft and motor vehicles. Amongst those relating to ships which are applied to hovercraft are Part VI of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, which provides for the investigation of casualties, and the various enactments and instruments dealing with wreck, salvage and distress.\nThe Order also substitutes references to hovercraft in some enactments for references to hover vehicles.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/971/note",
    "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."
}