Martyn's Law paperwork for gyms and leisure centres, done properly.
The 6pm class changeover, a full gym floor, swim-school pickup in the foyer: if it's reasonable to expect 200 to 799 people in the building at once, staff included, Standard Tier likely applies.
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A sports hall stays a sports hall. The duties are about procedures and people, and nothing requires building work.
Why gyms and leisure centres use MartynsLawPack
The law asks for workable procedures and staff who are aware of them. Doing it yourself means turning the official guidance into four procedures for your building, briefing everyone and keeping the records current as things change. MartynsLawPack takes most of that work off your hands, and you stay in charge of checking and signing off.
No blank page to start from
Answer about ten minutes of plain questions and your four procedures are written for you, ready to check and sign off.
Written for your building
Your procedures use your own entrances, your exits and the room you would move people to, in your own words, not a general template you have to adapt.
Staff made aware, on record
Instructors, reception and casual staff each get a link, read the procedures and tick to confirm. You can see at a glance who hasn't yet.
A record you can show
Every version is kept, with who signed it off, when, and which staff confirmed it. If the SIA asks, one download holds your current documents, sign-off records and staff log.
It stays up to date
You get a reminder before each review. Change an answer and a new version is written for you to sign off.
Simple to start, easy to stop
One premises is £39 a month plus VAT, with no minimum term. Cancel from your account whenever you like.
How it works
Answer plain questions
About your halls, studios, pool and the busiest hour of your week.
Check and sign off your documents
Procedures written for your premises and versioned. The responsible person signs them off.
Staff confirm they've read them
Reception, instructors, lifeguards, weekend casuals: each one confirms online, and the log shows who hasn't yet.
What you'll actually see
These panels show the kind of thing MartynsLawPack generates for your venue. They are illustrations, not screenshots.
Questions a duty manager can answer between classes
Straightforward questions in four short sections, each with a note on what it's for.
Guided assessmentWhich part of the building is furthest from the street, with the fewest windows?
What it's for: the place you'd move people to if leaving were more dangerous than staying. Your invacuation procedure names it.
Procedures that mention your actual sports hall
Written for your premises and your peak capacity basis, versioned and signed off.
Procedure generatorInvacuation procedure: Your Venue Name
Moving people to safety inside
If it's safer to keep people inside than to leave, the duty manager moves members, visitors and staff to the sports hall at the rear, away from the glass frontage.
Instructors bring their classes with them and confirm their counts to the duty manager, and nobody returns to the gym floor or pool until the all-clear is given.
An awareness log that keeps up with the rota
Self-employed instructors, weekend reception, new lifeguards: each one gets a link to confirm, and anyone still on an old version shows up at a glance.
Staff awareness log| Name | Role | Version | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. Patel | Duty manager | v2 | 12 Jun | Confirmed |
| J. Okafor | Lifeguard | v2 | 12 Jun | Confirmed |
| L. Hughes | Class instructor | v1 | 28 Apr | Link sent |
2 of 3 staff have confirmed the current version. One link sent, not yet confirmed.
What the law requires
The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 is expected in force in spring 2027. Standard Tier covers premises where it's reasonable to expect 200 to 799 people at once, staff included. Three duties apply at this tier, and a fourth where responsibility is shared or premises sit inside one another:
Notify the SIA
Your premises details lodged with the regulator.
More detail
The Security Industry Authority regulates the Act. The responsible person must tell the SIA that the premises are in scope and keep those details up to date. Premises already in scope get three months from the day the notification duty starts, and later changes have 28-day windows. The SIA's notification portal isn't open yet. It's being tested with volunteers, and it'll be on GOV.UK.
Have procedures in place
Evacuation, invacuation, lockdown, communication.
More detail
You need appropriate, workable procedures, so far as is reasonably practicable, ready to follow if an attack happened at or near your premises. Writing them down isn't a legal requirement at this tier, but the guidance says you should, and it's how you show they exist. Nothing requires you to buy equipment or alter the building, though a small change, such as how a door locks, can sometimes be a reasonable step.
Make staff aware
Everyone with a role knows the procedures and their part.
More detail
Procedures only work if the people on your floor know them and their own part in them. A briefing from you counts, and there's no course to buy. A record of who was made aware, and when, is how you show it later.
Co-ordinate with others
When responsibility is shared, or premises sit inside one another.
More detail
If more than one person is responsible for your premises, or your premises and other qualifying premises sit one inside the other, such as a bar in a shopping centre or a station, you must co-ordinate with the others so far as is reasonably practicable. Reviewing your procedures isn't a duty in itself, but the guidance recommends it, and procedures that no longer fit your premises stop being appropriate.
Counting for the threshold uses your busiest realistic moment, not your average Tuesday morning: the evening when classes turn over while the gym floor, pool and café are all busy, or the stands at a swim gala, staff included. Not sure where you land? Check your tier in 60 seconds.
What Standard Tier does not require
- No equipment to buy and no building work required. A small change, like how a door locks, can sometimes be a reasonable step.
- No training courses to buy. Briefing your own reception, instructors and lifeguards counts.
- You don't have to use any outside company or product, this one included.
- The big penalties in the headlines are Enhanced Tier's. At this tier the maximum civil penalty is £10,000 for each breach.
What it does ask: workable procedures, staff who know them, and the SIA notified. Records are how you show all three, and records are what MartynsLawPack does.
Pricing
One price that grows with the number of premises you run. Monthly, plus VAT, with no minimum term.
One premises
A single premises, with everything included
£39 /month + VAT
- Guided assessment for the premises
- Four procedure documents, written and versioned
- Sign-off by the responsible person
- Staff awareness log, with no limit on staff
- Review reminders and one-click downloads
- Email support
Two to five premises
One price covers all of them
£99 /month + VAT
- Everything above, for every premises
- A head-office screen across them all
- Manager logins at no extra cost
- The whole account in one download
Six premises or more
For groups, chains and estates of any size
£15 /month + VAT for each premises from the sixth
- Everything in the two to five plan, for every premises
- Six premises is £114 a month in total
- From the 26th premises, each one adds £10
- From the 101st premises, each one adds £7
- Sign up online for up to 1,000 premises
How paying works: monthly, plus VAT, taken by card through Stripe. No minimum term and no notice period. Cancel from your account and the next payment doesn't happen. The pricing page has the full ladder and works out the price for any number of premises.
The questions gyms and leisure centres ask us
Does my gym or leisure centre fall under Standard Tier?
If it is reasonable to expect 200 to 799 individuals may be present at once, including staff, you are likely in Standard Tier. That covers many mid-size leisure centres, multi-studio gyms and sports centres with a pool or events hall. Enhanced Tier generally applies from 800. The quickest way to find out is our free 60-second tier checker.
Members come and go all day. What number do we actually count?
Not daily footfall, and not your membership list. The test is how many individuals it is reasonable to expect in the building at the same time, at your busiest realistic moment: the evening when classes change over while the gym floor, pool and café are all in use, or a gala with parents in the stands. Staff count too. The checker walks you through it.
Do self-employed instructors and casual staff count?
Yes, twice over. For the headcount, individuals present includes everyone in the building: members and visitors plus staff, contractors and volunteers, so a self-employed spin instructor or contracted cleaner on shift counts the same as an employee. And anyone with a part to play in your procedures needs to be made aware of them and their role, which is exactly what the awareness log records.
When does this become enforceable?
The Act received Royal Assent on 3 April 2025 and the Home Office published the statutory guidance in April 2026. The Security Industry Authority, which regulates the Act, expects it to come into force in spring 2027, with the exact date to be confirmed. Venues that leave it until then will be sorting paperwork in a rush alongside everyone else.
More questions, including penalties, volunteers and whether a written plan is required, are answered on the full FAQ page.
Be ready long before you're asked to be.
Sixty seconds tells you where your venue stands. Leave an email address and we send a plain-English note whenever the official position moves.
Prefer to talk it through? Call 0203 886 0170 - you'll get a real person, not a queue.