Commentary on provisions of the Act Offences and Civil Sanctions Section 59: Civil sanctions
This section enables regulations providing for civil sanctions to be made in respect of criminal offences created by the Act, or by regulations made under it (except offences under Schedule 4 (offences against the safety of spacecraft etc)). This power corresponds to that in Part 3 of the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 (c.13) ("RESA").
	Part 3 of RESA allows Ministers to make regulations to provide for alternative civil sanctioning powers for relevant criminal offences that relate to regulatory non-compliance. The civil sanctions available under RESA are: fixed monetary penalties, discretionary requirements, stop notices and enforcement undertakings. They are an alternative to, rather than a replacement for, criminal conviction especially for minor breaches of regulatory requirements.
	This means that regulations may provide for stop notices to apply when activity presents a significant risk of harm to public safety; to persons carried in a spacecraft or carrier aircraft; to persons working at spaceports, mission management facilities or sites used for provision of range control services; to the interests of persons in relation to the use of land, sea or airspace; or to the interests of persons with interests in property being carried by the spacecraft.
	Regulations making provision enabled by subsection (2) must be made under the affirmative procedure.