Martyn's Law paperwork for hotels and wedding venues, done properly.
A wedding Saturday, a conference in the main suite, the Christmas party season: if your hotel can reasonably expect 200 to 799 people at once, staff included, Standard Tier likely applies.
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Residents, diners, function guests and staff all count at once. If your venue only hosts private weddings, read the questions below first.
Why hotels and wedding venues 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
Reception, banqueting, housekeeping and agency 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 rooms, your function suites and your busiest weekends. About ten minutes per premises.
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, housekeeping, banqueting, kitchen and agency staff: 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 whoever runs the hotel can answer on a quiet afternoon
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 know where your function suite is
Written for your premises and your peak capacity basis, versioned and signed off.
Procedure generatorInvacuation procedure: Your Hotel Name
Moving people to safety inside
If it's safer to keep people inside than to leave, the duty manager moves guests from the lobby, bar and restaurant to the Garden Suite at the rear, away from the glass frontage.
The banqueting manager keeps any function already in the suite where it is, and nobody returns to the lobby until the all-clear is given.
An awareness log that keeps up with agency and seasonal staff
Banqueting teams, agency waiting staff and summer hires go in the log with a link to confirm, and anyone still on an old version shows up at a glance.
Staff awareness log| Name | Role | Version | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Kowalski | Duty manager | v3 | 2 May | Confirmed |
| R. Mensah | Banqueting | v3 | 2 May | Confirmed |
| T. Byrne | Agency waiting staff | v2 | 18 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. For a hotel, that's everyone under the roof at your busiest realistic moment: residents, diners, function guests and staff. 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.
A private wedding doesn't hand responsibility to the couple. When a hotel that's already in scope hosts one, the responsible person is still whoever controls the premises (statutory guidance, para 5.14). 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, banqueting and housekeeping teams 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 monthly fee covers keeping it current: adding new starters to the log, a new version each time you change something, and a reminder before each review.
The questions hotels and wedding venues ask us
Does my hotel fall under Standard Tier?
Hotels are named in the Act (Schedule 1, para 8). You're likely in Standard Tier if it's reasonable to expect 200 to 799 people at once, staff included, and in a hotel that means everyone under the roof together: residents, diners, guests at a function and every member of staff on shift. A busy function suite is often what carries a hotel past 200. Enhanced Tier generally applies from 800. The quickest way to find out is our free 60-second tier checker.
When a couple hires us for their wedding, who is responsible?
If your premises are in scope, you are. Hiring them out for a private event doesn't change who the responsible person is (statutory guidance, para 6.13), and a private wedding doesn't pass control to the couple or their planner (para 5.14). The guidance says you should explain the requirements to anyone who hires the premises and what you expect of them (para 6.14). The hire contract is a natural place to set that out, and if the SIA asks, you need to be able to show you told the hirer what was required and took reasonable steps to make sure they followed it (para 6.15).
We're a wedding venue rather than a hotel. Does the Act cover us?
It isn't settled. The Act's list includes venues for hire for events, where the events are principally for the benefit of visiting members of the public (Schedule 1, para 6). The statutory guidance says a private wedding for invited family and friends isn't open to the public, but it says that when explaining which events count on their own, not which venues are in scope (para 5.13). How the Act treats a venue that only ever hosts private weddings isn't spelled out. Events anyone can come to, such as open days, wedding fairs or ticketed dinners, make it more likely your venue is in scope. If most of your diary is private weddings, please call us before you buy anything and we'll talk it through.
Our banqueting team is mostly agency staff. Do they need to be made aware too?
Anyone with a role in your procedures must be made aware of them and of their own part (statutory guidance, para 7.51), so if agency waiting staff have a part to play on a function night, that includes them. It's awareness, not training: a briefing from your duty manager counts. What slips in hotels is the record, with a different team on every big Saturday. In MartynsLawPack you add each person to the log and send them a link. They read the signed-off procedures and tick to confirm, and the log shows at a glance who hasn't confirmed the current version.
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.
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