The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, known as Martyn's Law, introduces new legal duties on premises and events to plan for and respond to a terrorist attack. Here's where it actually stands, and what a system like OppAccred can and can't do about it.
Martyn's Law applies to publicly accessible premises and events, split into two tiers by capacity. Football grounds and most live sporting venues sit well within scope.
Premises must have simple, low-cost procedures in place: what to do if there's an attack, and how to evacuate or lock down.
Larger premises must also assess their vulnerability to an attack and take reasonable steps to reduce it, including how access and movement are controlled.
This page is general information, not legal advice. The Act's requirements are not yet enforceable, and the Home Office has confirmed an exact commencement date hasn't been set. Anyone responsible for a premises or event in scope should check current guidance directly with the Home Office, ProtectUK, or the Security Industry Authority (SIA), the appointed regulator, rather than relying on this page alone.
OppAccred doesn't make you compliant on its own, that depends on your whole security plan. What it does give you is the access-control and record-keeping side of the Act, already built in.
If the stadium needs to lock down, muster mode freezes every scanner and shows exactly who's where from the last scans recorded, built for an evacuation, not just day-to-day access.
Pull anyone's access and it takes effect at scan points and in the app immediately, no waiting for a print run or a manual list update.
Scan history and the live dashboard export as a report suitable for regulators or insurers, so you're not reconstructing who was where after the fact.