Meet Martyn's Law Standard Tier duties

MassComs includes a compliance area built around the Protect Duty (Terrorism) Act 2025, Standard Tier. It tracks the requirements, records who is responsible, and shows what is outstanding — so the evidence exists before somebody asks for it.

1. 01

   Open the compliance area

   Martyn's Law Compliance shows overall compliance status, the requirement list with priorities, and the completion state of each item.

   Requirements are marked by priority and by whether they are required by law, so the list tells you what to do first rather than presenting everything as equal.

2. 02

   Record the premises details

   Complete the address, capacity and category. Capacity in particular determines which tier of duty applies to you — the compliance header names the organisation and its tier — so it is not a cosmetic field.

   Field or control	What it does
   Address	The premises the duty applies to.
   Capacity	The number of people the premises can hold. This drives the tier and therefore the duties.
   Category	The premises type under the Act.

3. 03

   Name the Designated Responsible Person

   This block is marked Required by Law. Record the person's full name, job title, email and phone. It is a named accountability, not an administrative field.

   Field or control	What it does
   Full Name	The individual who holds the duty.
   Job Title	Their role, as it would appear in a formal submission.
   Email	A monitored address — this is a contact of record.
   Phone	A number reachable outside office hours.

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   Keep it current. A responsible person who has left is a compliance failure that is trivially visible to an inspector.

4. 04

   Deal with the SIA notification

   The compliance screen tracks SIA Notification Status separately, and states the deadline: notification is required within 12 weeks of Protect Duty commencement. Until it is done the status reads Not yet notified.

   There is a Notify SIA action alongside it, and an Export for SIA Submission that produces the document to accompany it. Do the notification as a deliberate task with a date, not as something you assume happened.

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   This is a statutory deadline, not a product reminder. Diarise it outside MassComs as well.

5. 05

   Work through the Standard Tier requirements checklist

   The checklist tracks each requirement as Complete, In Progress or Incomplete, with a priority, and rolls them into an Overall Compliance Status with counts against each state. Work by priority and by whether an item is Required by Law.

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   Confirm it worked

   The overall compliance status reflects reality rather than optimism. An honest amber is more useful than a false green.

   

6. 06

   Use the ProtectUK guidance

   The compliance area links out to ProtectUK resources and templates. Use them rather than drafting from scratch — they are the reference the duty is assessed against.

7. 07

   Connect the evidence

   Compliance is not a checklist in isolation. Your drills, incident records, risk assessment and training records are the evidence behind the ticks.

   • Drill records — evidence that procedures are exercised.
   • Incident timelines — evidence that the response works.
   • Risk assessment — evidence that threats were considered.
   • Training records — evidence that people know what to do.
8. 08

   Generate the security plan report

   Generate Security Plan Report produces the consolidated compliance document from what you have recorded.

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   The document is only as good as the underlying records. Generating it is a check on your data as much as an output.