{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-births-deaths-and-missing-persons-regulations-1972/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-births-deaths-and-missing-persons-regulations-1972/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1513",
  "legislation_title": "The Hovercraft (Births, Deaths and Missing Persons) Regulations 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hovercraft-births-deaths-and-missing-persons-regulations-1972",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations:—\n“Missing Persons” means persons with respect to whom there are reasonable grounds for believing that they have died on a hovercraft registered in the United Kingdom;\n“Person in command” of a hovercraft means, in a case where a person other than the captain is in command of the hovercraft, that person, and in any other case, the captain;\n“Traveller” in relation to a hovercraft includes a member of the crew;\nreference in these Regulations to births or deaths in a hovercraft include references to births or deaths on a hovercraft's lifeboat or liferaft and, in the case of deaths, to being lost from a hovercraft, or hovercraft's lifeboat or liferaft.\n(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1892",
      "affecting_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Consequential Amendments and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1513/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:25:55.681816+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."
}