Regulation 20 How the regulator determines the application

The regulator must determine the application^f1 having regard to—

(a)

the information provided by the applicant in connection with the application;

(b)

the information gathered by the regulator during consideration of the application;

(c)

any licence condition under section 13(1) which the regulator thinks appropriate to include in the licence, if the licence is granted and the views expressed about the condition by the applicant and any other person consulted about the condition.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: The Space Industry Act 2018 provides matters which the regulator has to be satisfied of before the regulator can grant a licence. The matters are referred to in sections 8(2) and (3) (grant of licences: general), 9(1) (grant of operator licences: safety) and 10 (grant of spaceport licence). Section 11(2) and (5) (grant of licences: assessments of environmental effects) requires the applicant for a launch operator licence or a spaceport licence to submit to the regulator an “assessment of environmental effects” (defined in section 11(3) of the Space Industry Act 2018) which the regulator must take into account in deciding whether to grant those licences. The regulator must exercise the function of granting or refusing the licence with a view to securing public safety and take into account the matters listed in section 2(2) (duties and supplementary powers of the regulator).