Sectors
Transport.
Stations are in scope on capacity like any other premises. Aerodromes are the one case in the Act where an existing security regime removes premises from scope entirely — where the plan is in force.
01 — Stations
Stations qualify on numbers, not on doubt.
Schedule 1 paragraph 11 covers use as a railway station, a bus or coach station, a tramway station, or any other station forming part of a transport system using a mode of guided transport. There is no tier cap, so the ordinary thresholds apply and any station of consequence will be well past 800.
The difficulty is not the threshold but the boundary. A large interchange is rarely one clean premises: it may combine a concourse under one operator, platforms under another, retail units on separate leases, a bus station outside and a car park run by a third party. Establishing what constitutes the premises — and therefore who the Responsible Person is — is most of the work.
Note the wording. The paragraph reaches stations forming part of a system using a mode of guided transport. That is deliberate drafting, and it repays reading against the specific site rather than assuming every transport facility is caught.
02 — Aerodromes
Already regulated, and therefore excluded.
Schedule 1 paragraph 12 covers use for affording facilities for the landing and departure of aircraft. Schedule 2 paragraph 4 then removes premises from scope where an aerodrome security plan under section 24AE of the Aviation Security Act 1982 is in force in relation to them.
This is the Act declining to layer a second regime over an existing one, and it is the clearest instance of that principle in the legislation. Two consequences follow, and both matter:
- The exclusion depends on the plan being in force, not on the premises being an aerodrome. Where no plan is in force, the exclusion does not apply.
- An event held there is excluded also — Schedule 2 paragraph 5 excludes an event held at premises within paragraph 1, 2 or 4 of that Schedule.
An operator of an airfield without a section 24AE plan should not assume the aviation classification carries the premises out of scope. That is a question about the plan, and it should be answered on paper.
03 — Engagement
What an engagement produces here.
Transport engagements are boundary work first. The threshold is rarely in doubt; who answers for which part of the interchange usually is.
- The premises boundary across operators, leases and adjoining facilities.
- The Responsible Person for each part, recorded rather than assumed.
- For aerodromes, whether a section 24AE plan is in force — and what follows if it is not.
- Procedures and evidence proportionate to a site that never closes.
Scoped to the premises, never to a package, and stated as a fixed fee before work begins — see how an engagement runs.
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Settle the boundary first.
Transport engagements almost always begin with what constitutes the premises and who controls it. Everything else follows.