{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-38.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348223682",
  "legislation_title": "The Space Industry Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-space-industry-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/38",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Grant of a spaceport licence: siting assessment requirement",
  "text": "(1) An applicant must conduct a siting assessment that meets the requirements in this regulation.\n(2) The applicant’s siting assessment must—\n(a) relate to the site of the proposed spaceport,\n(b) subject to paragraph (4), be based on the actual launch vehicle or vehicles, and\n(c) result in a numerical estimate of the annualised risk of death or serious injury to members of the public posed by the spaceflight activities proposed.\n(3) The level of risk determined under paragraph (2)(c) must be acceptable to the regulator.\n(4) Where the applicant’s application is not based on an actual vehicle, the applicant’s siting assessment must be based on the representative vehicle.",
  "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/38",
    "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."
}