# Martyn’s Law compliance checklist for standard-tier venues > A Martyn’s Law compliance checklist for standard-tier venues: how to comply step by step, from scope to SIA notification, with a free one-page printable. How to comply with Martyn’s Law at standard tier: check your tier, identify the responsible person, prepare the four public protection procedures, make sure people understand their roles and get ready to notify the SIA. This compliance checklist covers each step, with records and practice recommended to support the work. The duties are not yet in force. As at 16 October 2026, the SIA expects commencement in spring 2027, with no exact date confirmed. ## At a glance - **Legal duties**: Notification and appropriate procedures - **Good practice**: Record, brief, practise and review - **Written plan required?**: No, at standard tier - **Software required?**: No ## Check scope and expected attendance Print this page and add your venue name, reviewer, date and any actions still needed. The boxes are working prompts, not an official SIA form. Recommended records are good practice rather than extra standard-tier legal duties. A one-page version to print and tick is in the free venue preparation pack. - ☐ Identify the building, part of a building or group of buildings, and any land used with it. - ☐ Check the qualifying uses and the principal use where more than one applies. - ☐ Check Schedule 2 exclusions before relying on the headcount. - ☐ Establish the greatest number reasonably expected together from time to time, using predictable peaks rather than an average day. - ☐ Include employees, contractors and volunteers in the qualifying use areas. - ☐ Check the usual standard-tier range of 200–799 people. - ☐ Check special treatment: qualifying worship, childcare, primary, secondary and further education premises stay standard tier even above 799. - ☐ Keep the number, counting method and supporting information available for notification. [Print the one-page checklist](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/templates#checklist) · [What Martyn’s Law covers](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law) · [Standard-tier requirements](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/standard-tier) · [How to count people](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/counting-people) ## Identify responsibility and agree practical roles The responsible person is determined by the Act. Assigning a task to a manager, volunteer or consultant does not transfer that responsibility. - ☐ Identify the individual or organisation controlling the premises for their relevant use. - ☐ Check any special responsibility rule, including the governing-body or proprietor rule for schools. - ☐ Distinguish the responsible organisation from the people carrying out daily tasks. - ☐ Agree how responsible people at shared or nested premises will co-ordinate where required. - ☐ Explain relevant arrangements to hirers and others with control of the premises. - ☐ Check whether a large event creates separate qualifying-event duties. - ☐ Agree who is authorised to prepare and submit the SIA notification. [Who is the responsible person?](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/responsible-person) · [A clause for hall hire agreements](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/hire-agreement-clause) · [When an event qualifies](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/events) ## Prepare the four public protection procedures The legal duty is to have appropriate procedures, so far as reasonably practicable, to reduce physical harm if terrorism occurs on the premises or in the immediate vicinity. Consider each procedure against your actual building, people and activities. - ☐ Evacuation: identify how people could leave using routes away from danger. - ☐ Invacuation: consider how people could move to a place within the premises where there is less risk of physical harm. - ☐ Lockdown: consider how entry or exit could be prevented using appropriate arrangements. - ☐ Communication: decide how information reaches visitors and people working at the premises. - ☐ Identify who can start each procedure and who covers their absence. - ☐ Consider people who need assistance or different ways of receiving information. - ☐ Check busy periods, quieter shifts and bookings when the usual team is absent. - ☐ Weigh the benefit against the cost, time and difficulty. Do not expect anyone to compromise their own safety. [How to prepare public protection procedures](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/public-protection-procedures) · [What invacuation means](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/invacuation) ## Brief people and keep useful evidence People with procedural roles need to understand them and have the means to act. The records and practice below can help you explain your arrangements to the SIA, but a written plan and formal terrorism risk assessment are not standard-tier requirements. - ☐ Explain relevant procedures to employees, volunteers, contractors and hirers. - ☐ Check that people can use the relevant doors, controls and communication equipment. - ☐ Consider free awareness learning; buying a course is not required. - ☐ Record procedures in a short, usable format if helpful. - ☐ Record reasons where a procedure is not adopted, as recommended by the statutory guidance. - ☐ Talk through or practise realistic situations as good practice. - ☐ Note difficulties, decisions and follow-up actions. - ☐ Keep any briefing and review records where the responsible organisation can find them. [Free Martyn’s Law training and briefings](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/training) ## Prepare the notification and diary the deadlines The Notification Requirements Regulations 2026 set the deadlines. The notification duty has not commenced and the public portal is not yet open. There is no SIA notification fee. - ☐ Gather the responsible person’s name and contacts, including registered and trading names and company or charity number where applicable. - ☐ Gather the premises address, qualifying use and details of relevant licences or certificates. - ☐ Gather details of other people with control or co-ordination duties, as required by the notification rules. - ☐ Have the expected peak number, calculation method and relevant advertising website or social media details ready. - ☐ If responsible at commencement, notify within three months from commencement. - ☐ If becoming or ceasing to be responsible later, notify by the later of the end of that initial three-month period or 28 days after the change. - ☐ Correct information that becomes inaccurate within 28 days. - ☐ Follow the SIA’s published submission instructions when notification opens. [SIA notification information and deadlines](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/sia-notification) · [When Martyn’s Law starts](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/when-does-it-start) ## Review open actions and choose your next step As good practice, add an owner and target date to each unfinished action. Review arrangements when attendance, layout, use or the people carrying out procedures change. Check that the arrangements work during real bookings, rather than relying on a completed checklist. How to demonstrate your preparation is a practical question: be ready to explain your scope, responsibility, procedures and how people understand their roles. Useful records can support that explanation; they do not replace the arrangements themselves. Software is optional. Wardcote, the trading name of RJS & Partners LLP, offers standard-tier software at £99 a year per venue, free to try. This checklist is general guidance, not legal advice. [How to prepare for Martyn’s Law](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/how-to-comply) · [Print the one-page checklist](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/templates#checklist) · [Wardcote standard-tier pricing](https://wardcote.co.uk/pricing) · [Check your venue’s tier](https://wardcote.co.uk/check-your-tier) ## Questions ### How do we comply with Martyn’s Law at standard tier? Once the duties start, notify the SIA and have appropriate procedures for evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication, so far as reasonably practicable, co-ordinating with any other responsible person where the Act requires it. This checklist sets out each step, with the recommended good practice alongside. ### Is this an official Martyn’s Law compliance checklist? No. It is Wardcote’s practical checklist based on the official sources listed below. The Act and official guidance determine the requirements. ### Does completing every box demonstrate legal compliance? A checklist alone cannot establish that. The SIA will consider the actual arrangements and circumstances. Records can help explain decisions and preparation, while procedures must be appropriate and usable. ### Do we need a written plan or risk assessment? Standard tier does not require a written plan or formal terrorism risk assessment. Recording procedures is recommended. Separate fire safety and health and safety requirements still apply. ### Must we buy software, training or consultancy? No. Standard tier does not require those purchases. Free official guidance and awareness resources are available, and SIA notification has no fee. ### Can a hall hirer take over our responsibilities? Ordinary hire terms can allocate practical tasks but do not transfer the premises operator’s statutory responsibility. A qualifying event can have a separate responsible person under the event rules. ### What is the maximum standard-tier penalty? The maximum non-compliance penalty for a single contravention relating to standard-duty premises is generally £10,000. Continued failure to comply with a compliance notice can also attract additional daily penalties of up to £500 under section 19. The substantive duties are not yet in force. ## Sources - [Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025: official text](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/10/pdfs/ukpga_20250010_en.pdf) - [Home Office: standard duty requirements factsheet](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-factsheets/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-standard-duty-requirements-factsheet) - [Home Office statutory guidance](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-statutory-guidance) - [Home Office: notification requirements and deadlines](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-notification-requirement/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-notification-requirement-accessible) - [Notification Requirements Regulations 2026: SI 2026/793](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/793/pdfs/uksi_20260793_en.pdf) - [Home Office: Martyn’s Law myth buster](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69281f35b3b9afff34e960f0/martyns-law-mythbuster.pdf) - [ProtectUK: regulator, notification fees and inspections](https://www.protectuk.police.uk/martyns-law/regulator) - [SIA: regulatory role and implementation timetable](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/understanding-martyns-law-and-the-sias-role-as-regulator) ## Related - [Martyn’s Law standard tier: what you need to do](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/standard-tier) - [How to comply with Martyn’s Law](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/how-to-comply) - [The four public protection procedures](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/public-protection-procedures) - [Who is the responsible person under Martyn’s Law?](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/responsible-person) - [Martyn’s Law SIA notification: what to submit and when](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/sia-notification) - [Martyn’s Law training](https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/training) --- Source: https://wardcote.co.uk/martyns-law/standard-tier-checklist · Last reviewed 2026-10-16 · Wardcote, venue and event security. General guidance, not legal advice.