This Order applies to hovercraft, with modifications, a number of enactments and instruments relating to ships, aircraft and motor vehicles. Amongst those relating to ships which are applied to hovercraft are Part VI of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894, which provides for the investigation of casualties, and the various enactments and instruments dealing with wreck, salvage and distress.
The Order also substitutes references to hovercraft in some enactments for references to hover vehicles.