The Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) and Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Amendment Order 2022

Amendment of the Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989

2.—(1) The Hovercraft (Application of Enactments) Order 1989(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In article 3 (prevention of pollution by hovercraft), at the end of the list of provisions, insert—

“The Merchant Shipping Act 1995

• Sections 128(2) and 129

The Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution) (Law of the Sea Convention) Order 1996(3)

• The Whole Order”.

(3) After article 4 (safety regulations), insert—

“Manning

5.   Section 47 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(4) applies in relation to hovercraft and to persons connected with hovercraft as it applies in relation to ships and to persons connected with ships, and for that purpose has effect subject to the modification that for any reference to a ship, or to ships, there is respectively substituted a reference to a hovercraft and to hovercraft.”.

(1)

S.I. 1989/1350, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

(2)

1995 c. 21. Section 128 was amended by the Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Act 1997 (c. 28), sections 12 and 29, Schedule 6, paragraph 3 and Schedule 7 and the Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Act 2006 (c. 8), section 2.

(3)

S.I. 1996/282, amended by this Order. There are other amendments not relevant to this Order.

(4)

Section 47 was amended by the Marine Navigation Act 2013 (c. 23), section 10.