Martyn's Law paperwork for your village or community hall.
Party hires, the Saturday market, polling day: if it's reasonable to expect 200 to 799 people at once, staff and volunteers included, Standard Tier likely applies.
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A hall run by a committee and a bookings diary is exactly the kind of place this law means. The duties are about procedures and people, and nothing requires building work.
Why halls 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
Your caretaker, committee and volunteers 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 hall, your hire diary and your busiest weekends.
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
Caretaker, committee and regular volunteers: 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 hall committee can answer in one sitting
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 fit the building you actually run
Evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication, written for your premises and versioned as things change.
Procedure generatorInvacuation procedure: Your Venue Name
Moving people to safety inside
If it's safer to keep people inside than to leave, whoever is running the event moves everyone to the committee room at the back, away from the glass doors at the front.
A volunteer counts people in at the committee room door, and nobody returns to the main hall until the all-clear is given.
An awareness log built for committees and volunteers
Caretaker, bookings secretary, regular helpers: every confirmation logged, online or on paper, 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 | Bar staff | v2 | 12 Jun | Confirmed |
| L. Hughes | Weekend staff | 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 and volunteers included. For most halls that means your busiest hire, not an ordinary Tuesday. 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: the pantomime weekend, the wedding reception, the Christmas fair, everyone helping included. Not sure where your hall lands? 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 staff and volunteers 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 halls ask us
Does our hall fall under Standard Tier?
If it is reasonable to expect 200 to 799 individuals may be present at once, including staff and volunteers, you are likely in Standard Tier. Under 200, the Act is unlikely to apply at all, and plenty of smaller halls will find exactly that. The quickest way to find out is our free 60-second tier checker.
Most of our bookings are private hires. Who runs the procedures on the night?
A private hire doesn't change who's responsible for the hall under the Act. That stays with whoever runs the hall, and the guidance says you should explain what's needed to hirers and be able to show the SIA that you did (statutory guidance, paras 6.13 to 6.15). Your hall's procedures only help if someone present on the night knows them. When your own committee or caretaker runs an event, that's straightforward. For private hires, the practical fix is a short briefing sheet for regular hirers: where the exits are, where people move to if staying in is safer than leaving, who rings 999 and who rings the keyholder. Keep it with the booking paperwork so every hire starts the same way.
We're run entirely by volunteers. Does that change anything?
No. Volunteers count as individuals present when you're counting toward the threshold, and a volunteer with a role in your procedures must be made aware of the procedures and their specific part in them, the same as paid staff. There is no requirement to hire anyone or send anyone on a course: briefing your own people counts, and a record of who was briefed is how you show it.
We only fill the hall a few times a year. Does that count?
It can. The test is whether it is reasonable to expect the numbers from time to time, so a hall that fills for the pantomime, fireworks night or the Christmas fair can be in scope even if a normal weeknight is a dozen people at badminton. It is about your busiest realistic booking, not your average one. The checker walks you through it.
Be ready long before you're asked to be.
Sixty seconds tells you where your hall 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.