Section 26: Interpretation.

In this Act, the following expressions shall have the following meanings-
"AFN" means Armed Forces of Nigeria;
"Centre' means Development Centres of the Administration established under Section 10 of this Act;
"Chief' means the Chief/Head of the Defence Space Administration:
"CDS" means Chief of Defence Staff;
"CDSA" means Chief of Defence Space Administration;
"CEO" means Chief Executive Officer;
"DCDSA" means Deputy Chief of Defence Space Administration;
"DSS" means Defence Space School;
"Dual-purpose Technologies" means Space Technologies which can contribute to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;
"Facility" means any place, premises, structure or installation designed, adapted or equipped for the performance of any space or space-related process or activity;
"Fund" means the Fund of the Administration or Defence Space Development Fund established under Section 23(1) of this Act;
"Government institutions" means any-
(a) body or company established by or under any law; or
(b) other institution or body recognized by the Minister by notice in the Gazette;
"Launching" means the placing or attempted placing of any spacecraft into a sub-orbital trajectory or into outer space. or the testing of a launch vehicle or spacecraft in which it is foreseen that the launch vehicle will lift from the earth's surface;
"Launch vehicle" means any device manufactured or adapted to launch a spacecraft;
"Licence" means a licence issued to the Defence Space Administration by the regulatory Space Agency or proprietary body;
"Licensee" means any person who is the holder of a licence:
"Member' means a member of the Council:
"Misconduct" means immoral, unethical or unprofessional behaviour;
"MOD" means "Ministry of Defence;
"Other Security Agencies" means the Nigeria Police Force, the Department of State Security Services, the National Intelligence Agency, Nigerian Customs Service, Nigerian Immigration Service. Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps;
"Outer space" means the space above the surface of the earth from a height at which it is in practice possible to operate an object in an orbit around the earth;
"Premises" means any place where any facility, installation or structure is situated or being erected, and where any space or space-related activity is performed or the performance thereof is contemplated;
"Prescribed" means prescribed by regulation;
"Principal Officer" means the Chief, Deputy Chief and Directorates Directors, Centres Director and Commandant of DSS appointed under this Act;
"Regulation" means any regulation made under this Act;
"Secretary"means the Secretary of the Council appointed under Section 14(1)of this Act.
"Space activities" means the activities directly contributing to the launching of spacecraft and the operation of such craft in outer space;
"Spacecraft" means any object launched with the purpose of being put and operated in outer space:
"Space industry" means any industry utilizing space technologies:
"Space-related activities" means all activities supporting, or sharing mutual technologies with, space activities;
"Space technologies" means technologies specifically developed with aview to, or which are related to, or are utilized in, space activities:
"Suborbital trajectorv' means the trajectory of any object which leaves the surface of the earth due to a launch, but returns to the surface of the earth without completing an orbit around the earth:
"Technical officer' includes scientists, engineers and lawyers working in the Administration;
"Technological assets" means any capital assets, patents, designs, data, equipment and computer software specifically related to space technologies;
"This Act" includes any regulation;
"Weapons of mass destruction" means weapons of mass destruction as defined in the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, 1993.