LegalizeThe 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[^f00001] 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[^f00002] are amended as follows.
- (2) In Schedule 1, Part 10 is omitted.
Signed
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Keir Mather — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 16th October 2025
We approve the making of these Regulations
Taiwo Owatemi — Christian Wakeford — Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury — 13th October 2025
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Explanatory Note
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.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/674, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
[^f00002]: S.I. 2018/1104, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
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