PART 8 U.K.Safety of operator’s spaceflight activities

CHAPTER 6 U.K.Offences and penalties

Failure of a launch director or a safety manager to carry out obligations to a spaceflight participant about stations U.K.

131.—(1) A launch director referred to in regulation 119(1)(a), who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with the requirement in regulation 119 to ensure that a spaceflight participant is seated at the spaceflight participant’s assigned station and secured in that spaceflight participant’s seat by a safety belt or other restraint device at the times or during the periods referred to in regulation 119(2)(a) to (c), commits an offence.

(2) A safety manager referred to in regulation 119(1)(b), who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with the requirement in regulation 119 to ensure that a spaceflight participant is seated at the spaceflight participant’s assigned station and secured in that spaceflight participant’s seat by a safety belt or other restraint device at the times or during the periods referred to in regulation 119(2)(a) to (c), commits an offence.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 131 in force at 29.7.2021, see reg. 1(1)