What we will write here, and what we will not
9 August 2026
Most of what is written about Martyn's Law is written for people who read legislation for a living. The people it actually lands on are treasurers, caretakers, licensees and hall committees, and they were handed a long piece of statutory guidance and very little else.
So this is where we will put the plain version.
What we will write
When something genuinely changes, we will say what changed, what it means for a venue holding a few hundred people, and what you might want to do about it. Every factual claim will have a link to where it came from, at the bottom of the post, so you can check us. Where the statutory guidance says something specific we will point at the paragraph rather than paraphrase it into something looser.
What we will not write
We will not run a post because it has been a week and the blog looks quiet. If nothing has happened, nothing is what you will get, and that is the honest answer. We will not write anything that reads as a countdown to a fine. Fear is an easy way to sell a compliance product and it is a bad way to help somebody plan an evacuation route.
We will also not give legal advice. We are not lawyers and this is not that.
Where to start
If you have not checked whether any of this applies to your venue, the free scope check takes about two minutes and gives you a dated record of the answer either way, including when the answer is that the Act does not apply to you.
If you want the questions people actually ask, the FAQ is the plain version of those, and the official sources are linked in the footer of every page on this site.
Sources
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-statutory-guidance
- https://www.gov.uk/guidance/understanding-martyns-law-and-the-sias-role-as-regulator
This is general information about Martyn's Law, not legal advice, and nothing here changes what the statutory guidance says.