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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-spaceflight-activities-investigation-of-spaceflight-accidents-regulations-2021/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348223699",
  "legislation_title": "The Spaceflight Activities (Investigation of Spaceflight Accidents) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-spaceflight-activities-investigation-of-spaceflight-accidents-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application of these Regulations",
  "text": "These Regulations apply to the investigation of spaceflight accidents occurring—\n(a) in or over the United Kingdom, and\n(b) elsewhere, if the circumstances set out in regulation 16 apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “accident” in section 20(3) (investigation of accidents) of the 2018 Act is wide and includes unexpected events which threaten the safety of any spacecraft or person, whether or not any person is injured or the spacecraft is damaged. Launch vehicles referred to in these Regulations are spacecraft."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2021/9780348223699/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:47:09.948062+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."
}