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The Spaceflight Activities (Investigation of Spaceflight Accidents) Regulations 2021

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CHAPTER 2The duty to investigate and powers to investigate

Duty to investigate

14.  The Chief Inspector must cause a safety investigation to be conducted in accordance with these Regulations where a serious spaceflight accident occurs in or over the United Kingdom.

Power to investigate

15.—(1) The Chief Inspector may cause a safety investigation to be conducted in accordance with these Regulations where—

(a)a spaceflight accident occurs in or over the United Kingdom, and

(b)the Chief Inspector expects to draw safety lessons for spaceflight activities from the safety investigation.

(2) In this regulation “spaceflight accident” does not include a serious spaceflight accident.

Power to investigate spaceflight accidents occurring elsewhere than the United Kingdom

16.  If practicable, the Chief Inspector may cause a safety investigation to be conducted in accordance with these Regulations where—

(a)a spaceflight accident occurs elsewhere than in or over the United Kingdom,

(b)the spaceflight accident involves a launch vehicle in respect of which the United Kingdom is the state—

(i)from which the launch vehicle was launched,

(ii)having jurisdiction over the organisation responsible for the design of the launch vehicle,

(iii)having jurisdiction over the organisation responsible for the manufacture or final assembly of the launch vehicle, or of any component parts of the launch vehicle,

(iv)having jurisdiction over the organisation responsible for the maintenance of the launch vehicle, or any component parts of the launch vehicle, or

(v)in which the spaceflight operator’s principal place of business is located, and

(c)an investigation is not conducted by another state, or the United Kingdom has been requested by another state to assist with an investigation carried out on behalf of that state.

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