49BApplication for GBSI activity authorisation

1. A person or persons may apply to the Minister for a GBSI activity authorisation for the operation of ground-based space infrastructure of a particular type for 1 or more regulated activities.

2. The application must be made in accordance with prescribed requirements.

3. The application must include a declaration by the applicant stating—

4. that the applicant has in place protective security arrangements that—
   1. identify the security risks associated with the activities that they propose to carry out under the authorisation; and
   2. establish reasonable measures to manage those risks; and
   3. comply with any prescribed requirements; and
5. either—
   1. that the applicant has in place partner due diligence arrangements that—
      1. identify the steps (which must be reasonable in the circumstances) that they will take to verify the identity of their partners and understand the nature of their partners’ activities; and
      2. comply with any prescribed requirements; or
   2. that the applicant does not, and does not propose to, operate the GBSI to carry out regulated activities on behalf, or for the benefit, of another person; and
6. that the applicant meets any other prescribed requirements for the grant of the authorisation.

7. In this Act,—

   partner means anyone on whose behalf, or for whose benefit, a person operates, or proposes to operate, GBSI to carry out regulated activities (for example, a customer or research collaborator)

   partner due diligence arrangements means arrangements for verifying the identity of partners or understanding the nature of partners’ activities.