Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025

The law requires procedures.Sensible venues keep evidence of them.

Martyn’s Law is expected to commence in spring 2027. If 200 to 799 people may reasonably be expected at once at your village hall, community centre or pub — or 200 or more at your church — the duties are lighter than you may fear, and preparing calmly is mostly a matter of good records. That is what this kit does.

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Example entry

14/03/2026

Agreed the assembly point moves from the lychgate to the far end of the car park — the lychgate puts people out on the road. The north porch stays unlocked throughout services, so there are two ways out rather than one.

Decided by a churchwarden, with the PCC. An illustration of the artefact, not a real record.

Standard tier

Let’s be straight about what standard tier asks of you

Plenty of people will try to sell you fear. Here is the honest position for premises where 200–799 people may reasonably be expected at the same time.

200–799 people

The law requires you to

Notify the Security Industry Authority (SIA) that yours is a qualifying premises.
Have public protection procedures in place — so far as reasonably practicable — for evacuation, moving people to safety inside, locking down, and communicating with people on site.

The law does not require

Written or documented procedures
Drills or rehearsals
Training courses or qualifications
Physical changes to your building
Hiring consultants or buying software — including ours

Statutory guidance

So why keep evidence?

Because the statutory guidance recommends recording how you reached your decisions. Because trustees and volunteers move on, and records survive handovers. And because if the SIA ever asks how you approached your duties, a dated decision log answers in five minutes what memory cannot. The law requires procedures; sensible venues keep evidence of them.

How it works

Three calm steps

Check your tier

Three questions, a plain-English answer, and an SIA notification checklist. Free, no account.

Agree your procedures

Generate a pack tailored to your building, walk the building with it, amend it, and adopt it. You own it.

Keep the evidence

Record the decision, log walkthroughs, and let the kit remind you to review annually. Export it all as one PDF whenever you need to show your working.

Contents

What’s in the kit

Free tier checker: Answer three questions about your premises and get a plain-English view of your likely tier, what it means, and an SIA notification checklist. No account needed.
Tailored procedure packs: Generate a professional pack covering the four procedure categories — evacuation, invacuation, lockdown, communication — written around your exits, assembly points and key contacts. On screen, Word and PDF, with versions kept and earlier ones downloadable.
Decision record log: The statutory guidance recommends recording how decisions were reached. Log who decided, when, and what was considered — the core evidence artefact, timestamped and append-only.
Drill & refresher log: Good practice — not required at standard tier. Record walkthroughs and refreshers with dates, participants, notes and photo evidence.
Annual review reminders: A yearly nudge to re-walk the building and re-agree the procedures, post-incident review prompts, and — if you opt in — a monthly countdown to commencement.
Evidence pack & estates: One click bundles profile, tier, procedures, decisions, drills and reviews into a single PDF. Estates (dioceses, councils, charities) get a per-venue dashboard and roll-up export.

Permissions

Who does what

Four roles, and only two of them are logins. The law puts duties on a responsible person; this product keeps the records that person decides to keep.

Owner: Whoever set the organisation up — usually the treasurer, secretary or administrator.
Everything a team member can do, across every venue in the organisation
Invites people by email and decides what each of them can see
Creates venue groups — a region, a division — to give someone part of an estate rather than all of it
Buys or changes the subscription, and adds venues
Receives the reminder emails: annual review and post-incident prompts, plus the commencement countdown if the organisation opts in
Team member: Anyone else invited to the organisation. An owner chooses whether they see the whole organisation, a group of venues, or named venues.
Within the venues they can see: edit venue details, and archive ones the organisation no longer runs
Generate procedure packs and download them as Word or PDF
Log decisions, drills, refreshers and annual reviews
Export evidence packs, and a roll-up covering the venues they can see — on the plans that include them
Add venues and change the subscription — only if they can see the whole organisation, since both commit the organisation’s money
Does not receive the reminder emails — one inbox gets chased, not five
Responsible person: Not a login. The person or body the Act puts the duty on for a premises.
Owns the compliance decisions — this product never takes them
Adopts the procedures: every document is watermarked as a template for adoption by them
Is usually an owner or team member here too, but does not have to be
Anyone, without an account: Visitors to this site.
Use the tier checker — three questions, a plain answer, free forever
Download the result as a PDF, and have its headline emailed only if they ask
See every self-serve price before signing up for anything

The limits

Being straight about the limits: venue groups are flat — a region or a division, not regions within regions. Only an owner can invite people or change what they see, and anything that commits the organisation’s money — adding venues, changing the subscription — needs someone who can see the whole organisation. Signing in is by emailed link only: no passwords, no single sign-on. Records are append-only by design: nobody can edit or delete a decision, drill or review from inside the product, which is what makes them worth keeping. We remove an entry by hand only on your organisation’s instruction — the Service Schedule explains when.

Pricing

Honest pricing

The tier checker is free forever. Pay only for the documents and records you actually want to keep.

Monthly Annual — two months free

Procedure pack

£79one-off, per venue

A tailored procedure pack you adopt and own. No subscription.

All four procedure categories
Written around your exits, assembly points and contacts
Word (.docx) and PDF downloads
Regenerate as your details change — versions kept

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Evidence log

£9 per venue/month

or £90 per venue/year — two months free

The ongoing evidence layer for one venue.

Procedure pack generation for the venue — from day 31 on annual plans, or after 90 days on monthly
Decision record log (timestamped, append-only)
Drill & refresher log with photo evidence (good practice — not required at standard tier)
Annual review reminders and an optional countdown digest
One-click evidence pack PDF

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Estate

£5/venue/month

or £50/venue/year — two months free

For dioceses, councils and charities managing many venues. Minimum 10 venues.

Everything in Evidence log, for every venue
Per-venue status dashboard
Roll-up export for trustees
Procedure packs included for every venue — from day 31 on annual plans, or after 90 days on monthly
Invite colleagues by email — each with their own login, seeing the whole estate, a group or named venues
Add venues at any time, charged pro rata for the rest of the period; removing venues takes effect at renewal
Above 150 venues, talk to us

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What the estate rate comes to

Estate cost at a range of venue counts, monthly and annually
Venues	Monthly	Annualtwo months free	Per venue, per monthon the annual plan
10	£50	£500	£4.17
25	£125	£1,250	£4.17
50	£250	£2,500	£4.17
100	£500	£5,000	£4.17
150	£750	£7,500	£4.17
Over 150	Tell us about your estate — estates this size usually want a conversation anyway.

There are no bands and no steps: it is £5 a venue a month however many you have, so the rate per venue never depends on which side of a threshold you sit. You pay for the venues you add to your dashboard — not the premises you own — and archiving one stops it counting. Use the free checker to triage first, then keep records for the ones you choose.

Pay annually and you pay for ten months, not twelve — the same monthly rate, with two months free. Any annual plan can be paid by invoice against a purchase order, with bank transfer details and 30-day terms, instead of by card. The price shown is what you pay. ITSM Ltd is not registered for VAT, so we add none, and our invoices carry no VAT line and no registration number. It is the same figure whether you pay by card or by invoice against a purchase order. Whichever way you pay, you are buying from ITSM Ltd and the invoice comes from us. Card payments are taken securely by Stripe on our behalf; purchase orders are invoiced on 30-day terms. Cancel subscriptions any time; your records remain exportable.

Larger estates

Keeping records for more than 150 venues?

Above that the published price stops and a conversation starts: a local authority, national charity or heritage estate at that size usually needs a schedule its procurement team can work with. Tell us the shape of the estate and we will come back with one. No sales sequence — we use your address to answer this enquiry and nothing else.

FAQ

Questions, answered plainly

Do I legally need this product?

No. Nobody needs this product to comply with Martyn's Law, and we will never tell you otherwise. Standard-tier premises must notify the SIA and have public protection procedures in place, so far as reasonably practicable; the Act does not require documentation, drills or training at that tier. What we sell is an evidence layer: good records of sensible decisions, kept in one place.

What is Martyn's Law, and when does it start?

The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 — known as Martyn's Law — received Royal Assent in April 2025. Commencement is expected in spring 2027, with the Security Industry Authority (SIA) as regulator. The government has indicated at least 24 months' lead-in for premises to prepare.

Which tier is my venue in?

Broadly: qualifying premises where 200–799 people may reasonably be expected at once are standard tier; 800 or more is enhanced tier — except places of worship, and early years, school and further-education premises, which stay standard tier whatever their size; below 200 is out of scope. Our free checker walks you through it in plain English. Enhanced-tier venues should seek professional advice — we say so clearly and this kit is not aimed at them.

If written procedures aren't required, why keep records?

Three reasons. The statutory guidance recommends recording how decisions were reached. Volunteers and staff change — records survive handovers. And if the regulator ever asks how you approached your duties, a dated decision log answers in five minutes what memory cannot.

Is this legal advice?

No. This is a record-keeping tool. Every generated document is watermarked as a template for adoption by the responsible person — not certified advice. Compliance decisions belong to the responsible person; if in doubt, take professional advice.

We manage many venues — does this scale?

Yes. Estate is £5 a venue a month, from 10 venues up to 150 self-serve: one dashboard across the estate — procedures current, reviews due, notifications recorded — plus a roll-up export for trustees. You pay for the venues you keep records for, not the premises you own, and you can add venues at any time. Above 150 venues, use the enquiry form below and we will price it with you.

Can we pay annually, or by invoice?

Both. Every subscription can be paid annually at ten times the monthly price — twelve months for the price of ten. Annual plans can also be paid by invoice against a purchase order on 30-day terms, which is how many councils, dioceses and charities buy; the price is the same either way, and no VAT is added. Annual plans carry a 30-day money-back guarantee from the day we are first paid; after that there is no refund for a change of mind, except as section 3 of our Service Schedule provides, and a consumer's statutory rights are unaffected. Your records remain exportable either way.

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