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SPACE ACTIVITIES REGULATIONS 2001 2001 No. 186 - REG 2.14

Emergency plan for launch facility and launch vehicles

For this Part, an emergency plan must include at least the following:

(a)
a description of the actions to be taken by the persons who are responsible, or, if the space licence were granted or transferred to the applicant, would be responsible, for responding to an accident or incident involving a relevant launch vehicle that is launched, or attempted to be launched, from the relevant launch facility;

(b) a description of the actions to be taken by the persons who are responsible, or, if the space licence were granted or transferred to the applicant, would be responsible, for responding to any other kind of emergency:

(i)
involving a relevant launch vehicle that is launched, or attempted to be launched, from the launch facility; or
(ii)
occurring at or near the launch facility that interrupts, or might interrupt, its operation or may endanger public health or public safety or cause substantial damage to property; or
(iii)
occurring on the site of the launch facility during its construction that may endanger public health or public safety or cause substantial damage to property;
(c)
a list of the authorities or persons that are to be notified by the holder or applicant in relation to the accident, incident or emergency;

(d)
a description of the arrangements for coordinating, with those authorities or persons, any action to be taken in relation to the accident, incident or emergency;

(e) the details of appropriate evacuation procedures for any kind of accident, incident or emergency:

(i)
involving a relevant launch vehicle that is launched, or attempted to be launched, from the relevant launch facility; or
(ii)
at or near the launch facility or on the site of the launch facility during its construction;
(f)
the details of exercises to test the plan, including a description of the arrangements for conducting the exercises annually and reporting to the Minister the results of those exercises;

(g)
a description of the arrangements for reviewing the effectiveness of responses in emergencies or exercises, including reporting to the Minister the results of any review;

(h)
a description of the procedures that, if an accident happens, are to be followed by the holder or applicant for locating the launch vehicle concerned or its wreckage and, in accordance with any necessary permission of the Minister or Investigator under the Act, for recovering and removing the launch vehicle or its wreckage;

(i)
a description of the arrangements for providing the equipment and facilities necessary for the purpose of responding to and dealing with the accident;

(j) a description of the arrangements to ensure that the holder or applicant meets the holder's or applicant's obligations under any Australian law:

(i)
in the event of an accident or incident or any other emergency of a kind referred to in this regulation; or
(ii)
in conducting exercises to test the plan and reporting in relation to those exercises.


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