Space Industry Act 2018

48 Compensation in respect of planning decisions relating to spaceport safety etc: Northern Ireland

(1) A district council in Northern Ireland is entitled to recover from the relevant person a sum equal to any compensation that council is liable to pay, if—

(a) the council becomes liable to pay compensation to any person because of a planning decision taken under the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 by a council, the Department for Infrastructure, or the Planning Appeals Commission, and

(b) the liability is attributable to a planning decision that would not have been taken but for the need to secure the safe and efficient operation of—

(i) a spaceport, or

(ii) range control apparatus.

(2) “The relevant person” is—

(a) where subsection (1)(b)(i) applies, the person authorised to operate the spaceport by a spaceport licence;

(b) where subsection (1)(b)(ii) applies, the range control service provider who operates the relevant range control apparatus.

(3) In this section—

• “planning decision” includes a revocation or modification of a planning permission under Part 3 of the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011;

• “range control apparatus” means apparatus operated by a range control service provider for the purposes of providing range control services.