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Martyn's Law · Standard Tier
The law isn't in force yet. The start date, the guidance and the SIA's notification portal are all still moving, and the changes tend to land without much warning. Leave your email and we'll tell you when something changes for venues holding 200 to 799 people.
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The changes we thought were worth telling a venue about, newest first. Each one is a couple of minutes to read.
A hall that's also a café, a church that hosts gigs, a hotel with a restaurant: new regulations decide which use counts, and so who carries the Martyn's Law duty.
The statutory guidance spent four months telling tied pub tenants that their brewery held the Martyn's Law duty. A correction slip reversed it: the tenant is in control, so the tenant is responsible.
The regulator published its clearest account yet of what it will actually do: a risk-based mix of desk-based checks and site visits, with 72 hours' notice as the norm.
The Act always said venues would have to notify the SIA but never said how quickly. Regulations made in July finally put a number on it, and for premises the number is three months.
Headlines saying parts of Martyn's Law are now in force are technically right and practically misleading: the provisions that commenced place duties on the regulator, not on venues.
The document explaining what venues actually have to do finally landed, more than a year after Royal Assent. For standard tier it confirmed things rather than changing them.
When there's something to say. No weekly newsletter, and no schedule we'd only end up padding out.
The list above is the honest answer. Those are the moments since April that we thought were worth a venue's attention, and the months in between produced nothing that was. When the SIA confirms a start date, you'll hear from us that week. When it adds Welsh translations of a document you already have, you won't.
Standard Tier. We make compliance software for independent venues, so we read this stuff anyway. We're not a government body and we're not affiliated with the SIA or the Home Office. No provider is: the Home Office's own myth buster says it doesn't endorse third-party products for Martyn's Law compliance. Ours included.
If you'd rather hear it from the regulator first-hand, the SIA runs its own Martyn's Law mailing list. Plenty of people are on both. The difference is that we do the reading and tell you what it means for a venue your size.
Last reviewed: 14 September 2026.
This page is general information about the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, not legal advice. Duties under the Act rest on the responsible person for each venue and cannot be transferred. If you're unsure how a specific requirement applies to your premises, take advice from a solicitor or qualified security adviser before acting on anything you read here.
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