The Space Industry Regulations 2021

Information to be provided to regulator about risk assessment

33.—(1) On making an application for a licence that would authorise spaceflight activities involving human occupants, an applicant must submit to the regulator—

(a) evidence that the applicant will, if granted the licence, be able to meet the requirements of any of regulations 106 to 123 that will apply, and

(b) a written record of the risk assessment carried out under section 9(2).

(2) The written record must also set out any measures that the applicant considered under regulation 32(3)(f) but does not intend to implement, with an explanation of why the applicant decided not to implement those measures.

(3) The regulator may request that an applicant who has carried out a risk assessment under section 9(2) provide the regulator with details of the risk assessment in an easily understandable form, and an applicant must comply with such a request within a period specified in writing by the regulator.

(4) The easily understandable form of the details of the risk assessment must set out in writing the outcome of each of the steps the applicant has taken under regulation 32(1) to (3).

(5) If an applicant revises a risk assessment after providing a written record of the risk assessment to the regulator, the applicant must, without delay, give the regulator—

(a) a written record of the revised risk assessment, and

(b) the details of the updated risk assessment in an easily understandable form.