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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/space-industry-act-2018/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/space-industry-act-2018/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2018/5",
  "legislation_title": "Space Industry Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/space-industry-act-2018",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Safety regulations",
  "text": "(1) Regulations (referred to in this Act as “safety regulations”) may make provision for the purposes of—\n(a) securing the safe operation of spaceports and mission management facilities;\n(b) securing that spaceflight activities are carried out safely;\n(c) securing that the range for spaceflight activities enables the activities to be carried out safely.\n(2) Schedule 3 gives examples of particular kinds of provision that may be made by safety regulations.\nThat Schedule does not limit subsection (1).\n(3) The regulator may issue guidance about how a person carrying out spaceflight activities, operating a spaceport or providing range control services may comply with requirements imposed by safety regulations.\n(4) In this Act “mission management facility” means a site (other than a spaceport) from which spaceflight activities are controlled or (as the case may be) are to be controlled.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 in force at 26.11.2018 by S.I. 2018/1224, reg. 2(ee)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/5/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:03.510643+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."
}