{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-37",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348223682",
  "legislation_title": "The Space Industry Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/37",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Grant of a spaceport licence: safety clear zone requirement",
  "text": "(1) An applicant must, unless paragraph (2) applies, show that it will be able to put in place an appropriate safety clear zone to ensure that the risk to any person from blast overpressure, fragmentation debris, thermal radiation or toxic release will be as low as reasonably practicable during any hazardous pre-flight and post-flight operations.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply if the safety case demonstrates that a safety clear zone will not be required for the hazardous pre-flight or post-flight operations.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), an appropriate safety clear zone is one that is determined by the assessment made in the applicant’s safety case under regulation 36(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/37",
    "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."
}