In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the National Security and Investment Act 2021;

• “development” means all stages prior to production, including design, design research, design analyses, design concepts, assembly and testing of prototypes, pilot production schemes, design data, process of transforming design data into goods or software, configuration design, integration design, layouts;

• “production” means all production stages, including product engineering, manufacture, integration, assembly (mounting), inspection, testing and quality assurance.