Martyn's Law: Draft Section 12 Statutory Guidance Consultation
Summary
The Security Industry Authority (SIA) and Home Office are consulting on draft statutory guidance under section 12 of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 (Martyn's Law). The guidance explains how the SIA proposes to exercise its regulatory functions under the Act. This consultation relates to the SIA's role as regulator and closes at 11:59pm on 12 June 2026.
What changed
The SIA is consulting on its draft section 12 statutory guidance, which sets out how it proposes to exercise functions as regulator under the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 (Martyn's Law). This guidance will operate alongside the Home Office's separate section 27 guidance, which addresses compliance requirements for affected organisations. The section 12 guidance specifically explains the regulatory approach the SIA will take.
Organisations affected by Martyn's Law should monitor this consultation and prepare to review the SIA's proposed regulatory approach. While this consultation does not cover the section 27 compliance requirements, understanding how the SIA will exercise its regulatory functions will be essential for compliance planning once the Act is fully implemented.
What to do next
- Submit consultation response by 11:59pm on 12 June 2026
- Review draft section 12 guidance
- Provide feedback via online survey
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Martyn's Law: draft section 12 statutory guidance
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Summary
The SIA is consulting on a draft of our 'section 12' guidance, which sets out how we propose to exercise our functions as the Martyn's Law regulator.
This consultation closes at
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11:59pm on 12 June 2026
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Consultation description
We are consulting on a draft of SIA guidance on how we propose to exercise our functions as the regulator under the Act. Section 12(2)(a) of the Act requires us to produce this guidance and to publish it if the Secretary of State approves it.
This statutory guidance, also known as ‘section 12’ guidance, will sit alongside the statutory guidance that the Home Office must produce under section 27 of the Act. The 2 pieces of statutory guidance will interlink:
- the Home Office’s section 27 guidance sets out the requirements of the Act: what people and organisations affected by the Act must do to comply
- our section 12 guidance explains how we will regulate the people and organisations affected by the Act This consultation only covers our section 12 guidance. It does not cover the Home Office’s section 27 guidance.
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Draft section 12 guidance consultation
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Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 section 12 guidance: consultation draft
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