Section 4
Section 4
(1)
The Minister with the approval of His Majesty may by regulations provide that, in their application to hovercraft or to persons, things and places connected with hovercraft, any of the provisions of this Act shall apply with such modifications as may seem to the Minister with the approval of His Majesty to be appropriate.
(2)
The Minister with the approval of His Majesty may by regulations provide that a thing designed or adapted for use at sea and described in the regulations is or is not be treated as a ship for the purposes of any provision specified in the regulations of this Act or any subsidiary legislation made thereunder; and such regulations may -
(a)
make different provision in relation to different occasions;
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Merchant Shipping
(b)
if they provide that a thing is to be treated as a ship for the purposes of a provision specified in the regulations provide that the provision shall have effect in relation to the thing with such mod-ifications as are so specified.