{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/space-industry-regulations-2021/regulation-34.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/792",
  "legislation_title": "The Space Industry Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/space-industry-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“actual vehicle” means a launch vehicle or carrier aircraft in respect of which there is an operator applicant;\n“applicant” means an applicant for a spaceport licence;\n“licensed activities” means the activities that a person is authorised to carry out by virtue of a spaceport licence;\n“operator applicant” means a person who is applying, has applied or intends to apply for a launch operator licence or a return operator licence to authorise spaceflight activities at the proposed spaceport;\n“the proposed spaceport” means the site in respect of which an application for a spaceport licence is being, or has been, made;\n“representative vehicle” means a launch vehicle or a carrier aircraft of the type that the applicant considers most likely to be used to carry out spaceflight activities at the proposed spaceport;\n“safety case” is to be construed in accordance with regulation 36;\n“safety clear zone” means an area which will be subject to restrictions, exclusions and warnings during the carrying out of hazardous pre-flight and post-flight operations;\n“siting assessment” means an assessment carried out under regulation 38.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 34 in force at 29.7.2021, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/792/regulation/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:11:23.525161+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."
}