{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-197",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-197.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348223682",
  "legislation_title": "The Space Industry Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/197",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "197",
  "heading": "Restrictions on the use of and access to US technology",
  "text": "(1) A licensee using US technology for its licensed activities must ensure that that US technology is not used for any purpose other than that for which a US export licence has been granted, unless the US Government authorises it.\n(2) A licensee must ensure that projects related to spaceflight activities that involve the launch of a US launch vehicle or a US spacecraft and items imported for use in these projects are not used for any other purpose without permission from the US Government.\n(3) The licensee must ensure that—\n(a) no person may transfer US technology to another person at a space site subject to the licensee’s control without authorisation from the US Government,\n(b) access to US technology used for the licensee’s licensed activities is restricted to those persons who have been authorised by the regulator and the US Government, and\n(c) persons may only unload sealed US technology used for the licensee’s licensed activities and deliver it to a controlled or segregated area if supervised by a person who has been authorised by the US Government.\n(4) A special launch operator must ensure that no person may transfer US technology used for that operator’s launch activities to another person without authorisation from the US Government.\n(5) The persons who may be authorised to have access to US technology include—\n(a) SAIA,\n(b) the Health and Safety Executive, in the case of US technology in Great Britain, or the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, in the case of US technology in Northern Ireland,\n(c) law enforcement agencies,\n(d) the regulator, and\n(e) the Secretary of State.\n(6) In this regulation, “law enforcement agencies” includes the police.\n(7) The licensee must inform the regulator of any information that a US licensee has given it from the US export licence or other authorisation of the US Government to transfer US technology.\n(8) The regulator must promptly give the Secretary of State any information it receives under paragraph (7).",
  "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/197",
    "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."
}