SI 2025/1088 - The Hovercraft (Fees) Regulations 2025

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 2025 No. 1088 HOVERCRAFT The Hovercraft (Fees) Regulations 2025 Made - - - - 16th October 2025 Coming into force - - 10th November 2025 The Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by article 35 of the Hovercraft (General) Order 1972(1) and with the approval of the Treasury hereby makes the following Regulations.

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Hovercraft (Fees) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 10th November 2025.

(2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Fee payable for a certificate of registration

2.—(1) A fee of £153 is payable, on application under article 5(5) of the Hovercraft (General)

Order 1972, for the issue of a certificate of registration under article 5(7) of that Order.

(2) Where the fee in paragraph (1) has not been paid, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, an executive agency of the Department for Transport, is not required to issue the certificate until the fee has been paid.

Consequential amendment

3.—(1) The Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2018(2) are amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 1, Part 10 is omitted.

(1) S.I. 1972/674, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(2) S.I. 2018/1104, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.Document Generated: 2025-11-10

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Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport Keir Mather Parliamentary Under Secretary of State 16th October 2025 Department for Transport We approve the making of these Regulations Taiwo Owatemi Christian Wakeford Two of the Lords Commissioners of His 13th October 2025 Majesty's Treasury 2Document Generated: 2025-11-10

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EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations prescribe a fee payable to the Secretary of State under article 35 of the Hovercraft

(General) Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/674).

Regulation 2 prescribes the fee payable on an application for the issue of a certificate of registration in respect of a hovercraft.

Regulation 3 makes a consequential amendment to omit the fee provided for in regulation 2 that was erroneously included in the Merchant Shipping (Fees) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1104).

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. A copy of this instrument is available on the UK legislation website legislation.gov.uk.

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