On Thursday 12 September, the new Government published the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill foreshadowed in the King’s Speech on 17 July. It takes forward most of the proposals in the previous government’s bill of the same name but with some significant tweaks. According to the accompanying ministerial statement,

“We have raised the standard tier threshold from 100 to 200, to create a more appropriate scope of the duty;

The ‘reasonably practicable’ standard of requirements, now applicable in both tiers, is designed to allow procedures and measures to be tailored to the specific circumstances of a premises or event. Continue reading →