My concern is that unless the definition of “operational” is anchored in the act, you may find your way to viewing anything that is ongoing as operational. If “ongoing”, as I think, implies “operational” by nature, whether you put it in or not will not, I think, have a great effect, but I think you would have to look at the draft. Your jurilinguists would probably want to weigh in on that, and you may want to anchor the word “operational” in the definition in the act.
On November 29th, 2016. See this statement in context.