{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-application-of-enactments-order-1989/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-application-of-enactments-order-1989/article-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Safety Regulations",
  "text": "Sections 21 and 22 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1979 shall apply in relation to hovercraft as they apply in relation to ships, and for that purpose shall have effect subject to the modification that for any reference to a ship, or to ships, there shall respectively be substituted a reference to a hovercraft and to hovercraft.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 39; section 21 was amended by section 49(3) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48) and by section 11 of the Safety at Sea Act 1986 (c. 23); section 22 was amended by Schedule 2 to the County Courts Act 1984 (c. 28)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1094",
      "affecting_title": "The Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) (Amendment) Order 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1350/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:39:28.937240+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."
}