- purposes of paragraphs (g) to (k) of subsection (1)) and apply the 1946 c. 36.Statutory Instruments Act 1946 to instruments made under the Order;
- (f) provide that any enactment, instrument or rule of law applied by the Order shall have effect as so applied subject to such modifications as may be specified in the Order; and
- (g) be revoked or varied by a subsequent Order under this section.
(4) No recommendation shall be made to Her Majesty in Council to make an Order under this section containing provisions authorised by paragraphs (f) to (k) of subsection (1) unless a draft of the Order has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament; and any other Order in Council under this section, except an Order extending only to territory (other than Northern Ireland) which is mentioned in paragraph (m) of subsection (1), shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
Admiralty jurisdiction etc.
1956 c. 46.
1959 c. 22.
2.—(1) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the following enactments, that is to say, Parts I and V of the Administration of Justice Act 1956, Part I of Schedule 1 to that Act and sections 56, 57, 60, 61 and 70(6) of the County Courts Act 1959 (which among other things relate to Admiralty jurisdiction) shall have effect as if references to ships (except references to Her Majesty’s ships and the reference in section 4(1) and the first reference in section 8(1) of the said Act of 1956 and the corresponding references in the said Schedule 1) included references to hovercraft and as if references to Her Majesty’s ships included references to hovercraft belonging to the Crown in right of the Government of the United Kingdom or the Government of Northern Ireland; and section 4 of the 1907 c. 51.Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907 (which relates to the jurisdiction of the sheriffs) shall apply in relation to hovercraft as it applies in relation to ships.
(2) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the law relating to maritime liens shall apply in relation to hovercraft and property connected with hovercraft as it applies in relation to ships and property connected with ships, and shall so apply notwithstanding that the hovercraft is on land at any relevant time.
(3) Her Majesty may by Order in Council provide that the enactments mentioned in subsection (1) and the law mentioned in subsection (2) of this section as extended by those subsections shall not apply in relation to hovercraft in such circumstances as may be specified in the Order or shall have effect, in all circumstances involving hovercraft or such circumstances involving hovercraft as may be specified in the Order, subject to such