The National Security and Investment Act 2021 (Notifiable Acquisition) (Specification of Qualifying Entities) Regulations 2021

Good and services – emergency services U.K.

3.  The goods and services referred to in paragraph 2(a) are the following—

(a) unmanned aircraft, any component, part or product of an unmanned aircraft, and any equipment, including an electronic device, relating to an unmanned aircraft;

(b) equipment designed to disrupt the operational system of an unmanned aircraft;

(c) equipment designed to detect, track or identify unmanned aircraft;

(d) firearms as defined in section 57(1) of the Firearms Act 1968 (interpretation: firearm)(1);

(e) ammunition as defined in section 57(2) of the Firearms Act 1968 (interpretation: ammunition);

(f) certification, maintenance, support or repairs to vessels operated by Border Force for frontline operational purposes;

(g) maintenance or repairs of unmanned aircraft, any component, part or product of an unmanned aircraft, and any equipment, including an electronic device, relating to an unmanned aircraft;

(h) an electronic communications network, electronic communications service or associated facility, that—

(i) is not a public electronic communications network or public electronic communications service; and

(ii) is used by the emergency service for the purposes of—

(aa) the prevention or detection of crime; or

(bb) fulfilling the functions of a fire and rescue authority;

(i) hardware, systems or platforms to facilitate the storage of electronic data, used exclusively or primarily by the emergency service for the purposes of—

(i) the prevention or detection of crime;

(ii) fulfilling the functions of a fire and rescue authority; or

(iii) the storage of personal data, including personnel data;

(j) the maintenance and repair of the goods and services referred to in sub-paragraphs (g) and (h);

(k) fuel cards;

(l) services to control systems relating to access and security of buildings;

(m) front line operational delivery of firefighting services in the event of strike action.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 15 para. 3 in force at 4.1.2022, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

1968 c. 27. Section 57(1) was substituted by the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (c. 3), section 125(2).