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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-application-of-enactments-order-1989/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1350",
  "legislation_title": "The Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-application-of-enactments-order-1989",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prevention of Pollution by Hovercraft",
  "text": "The following provisions, that is to say—\nThe Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971\nSections 2(2A), (2B) and (4), 5, 7, 11, 20, 23, 24 and 30.\nThe Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution Order 1983\nArticles 4, 5 and 6.\nThe Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Oil Pollution) Regulations 1983\nRegulations 1 to 12, 14, 16, 25 and 32 to 34; Appendices II and IV of Schedule 1; Appendix 1 of Schedule 2; and Schedule 3.\nThe Merchant Shipping (Reporting of Pollution Incidents) Regulations 1987\nThe whole Regulations.\nThe Merchant Shipping (Control of Pollution by Garbage) Regulations 1988\nThe whole Regulations.\nThe Merchant Shipping (Reception Facilities for Garbage) Regulations 1988\nThe whole Regulations.\nshall apply in relation to hovercraft as they apply in relation to vessels and ships, and for that purpose shall have effect subject to the modifications—\n(a) that for any reference to a vessel or a ship, or to vessels or ships (except in the expression “sea-going ships” in section 2(2A) of the said Act of 1971) there shall respectively be substituted a reference to a hovercraft and to hovercraft; and\n(b) that the definition of “ship” in regulation 1 of each of the said Regulations is omitted;\nand to the further modifications respectively set out in Parts A, B and C of Schedule 2 to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 60: section 2 was amended by the Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1986 (c. 6), section 1; and section 23 by the Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Act 1975 (c. 74), section 45."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/1106, as amended by S.I. 1985/2002."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/1398, as amended by S.I. 1985/2040 and the Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1986, section 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/586."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/2292."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/2293."
    }
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