{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-149",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-149.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348223682",
  "legislation_title": "The Space Industry Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/149",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "149",
  "heading": "Instruction of experts",
  "text": "(1) A spaceflight operator must instruct a suitably qualified person to review the processes implemented by the spaceflight operator to comply with the regulations in this Part.\n(2) The spaceflight operator must ensure that the review referred to in paragraph (1) is completed within a reasonable period of the spaceflight operator commencing the operator’s spaceflight activities which involve employing or engaging a crew member to perform duties on board a launch vehicle or a carrier aircraft.\n(3) A spaceflight operator must pay due regard to the results of any review undertaken under paragraph (1).\n(4) A spaceflight operator must provide the person instructed under paragraph (1) with any information and facilities that the person reasonably requests for the purpose of performing their review.\n(5) The spaceflight operator must take measures to ensure that any information provided under paragraph (4) is protected as confidential information and not disclosed otherwise than in accordance with this regulation or to an approved medical assessor for the purposes of that assessor performing duties as a medical assessor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348223682/regulation/149",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:47:12.105519+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}