The Space Industry Regulations 2021

Access control to space sites: further provisions

173.—(1) This regulation applies to the grant of access to a space site.

(2) A licensee may only grant access to a space site if an individual or vehicle seeking to enter the site satisfies the conditions mentioned in paragraphs (3) to (5).

(3) The conditions for granting access to the site are that—

(a) there must be a legitimate reason for the individual or vehicle to be on the site,

(b) the individual seeking access to the site must provide a reliable means of personal identification by providing—

(i) an employee or licensee identification card,

(ii) a national appropriate authority identification card, or

(iii) an approved identification card, and

(c) the individual seeking to bring a vehicle onto the site must provide the licensee with their details, and the details of the vehicle they seek to bring on site, prior to arrival.

(4) In paragraph (3)(a) a legitimate reason for being on the site includes participation in guided tours of the site.

(5) The identification mentioned in paragraph (3)(b) must be checked by an appropriately qualified and authorised security operative to ensure that the identification card is valid and corresponds to the holder before the holder is granted access to the site.

(6) An individual who has been granted access to the site must display any of the personal identification cards mentioned at paragraph (3)(b) at all times whilst on the site.

(7) This regulation does not apply to access for emergency services where they are responding to an emergency on the site.

(8) In this regulation—

“appropriate authority” means a public authority that is responsible for overseeing the operations of the individuals mentioned in the definition of “approved identification card”;

“appropriately qualified and authorised security operative” means a security operative who has been trained in accordance with provisions set out in Chapter 4 of this Part and is authorised to carry out security functions on the space site by the licensee;

“approved identification card” means a valid identification card issued by an appropriate authority to the following individuals including—

(a)

officers of SAIA,

(b)

CAA inspectors and auditors,

(c)

a constable,

(d)

officers of—

(i)

the Health and Safety Executive, or

(ii)

the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland, and

(e)

inspectors of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and its agencies;

“employee identification card” means a valid identification card issued by an individual’s employer that clearly identifies an individual and the organisation they work for;

“licensee identification card” means a valid identification card issued by the licensee that clearly identifies an individual and the licensee’s company;

“national appropriate authority identification card” means a valid identification card issued by—

(a)

the Secretary of State for the purposes of enabling the holder to enter a space site to carry out a security inspection to ensure that security operatives are compliant with security measures set out in this Part and in security guidance made under the Act, or

(b)

the US Government to enable access to a space site security restricted area(1) which has US technology, data or equipment;

“valid” means current and not tampered with.

(1)

See regulation 168 for the definition of “space site security restricted area”.