NEWS STORY- Martyn’s Law: a moment of reflection while moving forward
SIA Martyn’s Law Director Laura Gibb marks the first anniversary of Royal Assent and looks ahead to publication of draft section 12 guidance for consultation.
Marking one year since Royal Assent
“At the first anniversary of the Terrorism Protection of Premises Act receiving Royal Assent, we want to pause and pay tribute to Figen Murray OBE. Figen’s tireless work to initiate Martyn’s Law and the determination she continues to show in pushing for commencement, will make us all safer.”
“We are now in the final stages of preparing the SIA’s draft section 12 statutory guidance for public consultation. This guidance will explain our new statutory powers of enforcement and investigation and set out how we intend to use them.
The SIA section 12 guidance is about how we will operate as the regulator. It explains that we will take a targeted and risk-based approach to the use of our powers. It sets out how we will use guidance to help people engage with us and to comply with the law, and when we may provide advice in response to specific compliance concerns. The guidance describes how our powers to obtain information and carry out inspections will work, and how we will use the information that we hold. It also explains how we will address non-compliance- including the circumstances in which we may decide it is necessary and proportionate to use our statutory powers- how we will set the value of financial penalties, and what information we may publish about our compliance work.”
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