Legislation – Space Industry Act 2018
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Space Industry Act 2018
An Act to make provision about space activities and sub-orbital activities, and for connected purposes.
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—