REHIS Southern Centre Event
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 (Martyn’s Law) and Event Safety
Thursday 22nd October- 1.00pm- 4.00pm
MS Teams
Martyn’s Law is expected to come into force in Spring 2027, and the questions have already started arriving at licensing desks and SAG tables across Scotland.
- Does this apply to us?
- Who is responsible when the council owns the park and a company runs the concert?
- What does “800 people” actually count? And:
- Where does a SAG stop asking and a regulator start deciding?
This session seeks to answer those questions from the practitioner’s side of the table.
Ross Macdonald spent his earlier career as Head of Explosives Safety for the Ministry of Defence and leading personnel and physical security governance and in Westminster, and now runs a health, safety and security and compliance consultancy in Argyll.
He has spent the last year building an assurance framework against the Act as enacted, the Home Office statutory guidance and the July 2026 notification regulations.
The first part of the session covers the law as it stands:
- scope tests,
- two tiers,
- four procedures every qualifying premises must have,
- four measures the enhanced tier adds,
- notification timeframes, and
- what the Security Industry Authority has said about how it will regulate.
The second part will be a worked example: “Lochmount Summer Festival”.
Twelve hundred people, a fenced park, a stage, a bar and an organiser who has hired the site from “Lochmount Council.”
We will all run the assessment, then change variables, one fact at a time.
Each change produces a different answer, and each answer produces a question a SAG can legitimately ask.
You will leave with a plain-language guide to the main checks under the Act, a set of seven worked examples, and a clear view of the line between scrutiny and regulation, so your SAG can do its job without doing the SIA’s.
REHIS Members (including student members): £20
Non Members: £50
To book your place on this course, please follow link below:
Booking Form: Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 (Martyn’s Law) and Event Safety
