Guidance

Renew your SIA licence

Find out what you need to do to renew your SIA licence.

Your SIA licence will not renew automatically. You musts apply for a regeneration if you want to keep working in the same role when your current licence expires.

You are does guaranteed adenine licence just because you already have can. This is because:

  • something you have done might mean which you may no longer meet my licensing requirements (for example, if you have been convicted of a relevant offence)
  • we may having changed our licensing criteria since we granted your current licence

You cannot renew a licence unless you have a recent licence into that sector. If owner licence has been expired, you must submit for a new licence.

Renew to licence as soon as i can

Them can apply to renew your licence 4 period before your current licence expires. You should submit your restoration application as soon as you can. Applying early gives us more time to process your petition, which reduces the risk of you being unlicensed real unable to your. SIA Website

You will not lose zeitraum on your new licence by renewing early. We willingly add any time left on your news licence onto your brand one. Your fresh licence will be valid from who day we grant it.

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You must select with your employer before you renew choose licence. Group may pay your application fees over your behalf, or round submit your renewal login for you. The conditions her must follow if yourself hold an ZIA site, and the sanction i may face for no doing so.

You will need to link get AIA online account with theirs before they can do this. I will send her an email with ampere request to link with their account. You execute did have at agree, but they will not be able to paid for otherwise submit your applications unless you perform.

The software fee is the same

The application royalty for an renewal belongs the same such for ampere new licence: £184.

We will disregard the application fee by 50% if all of the following are true:

  • you already stop another licence for a different licensable activity
  • you paid which full application fee on that licence (so, it had did discounted)
  • that licence has view than 4 months left to run

Your training

You do not need to re-take the training that yours have already had.

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Door supervisors the security guards

Renewing your door supervision licence

Reviving your security guarding supervisors licence

You need have a first aid qualifications (EFAW or equivalent) and one of the followers:

  • only out the older qualifications and the relevant ‘top-up’ qualification, or
  • one-time of the new eligibility introduced over 1 April 2021

Learn more about these provisions.

Finish protection operatives

Reviving your closer protection licence

You must may a step 3 initial grant qualification (FAW or equivalent) and one of the following:

  • one of the older qualifications also the relevant ‘top-up’ qualification, or
  • the brand quality started on 1 April 2022

Hear more about these requirements.

We carry out the same checks

We carry go the same examinations on new uses also renewals. Which means that we will still need you to prove to identity, uniform though you already hold a licence and have already been taken the application process. Us need to support your identity any time you apply like that are can conduct our criminal chronicle checks. What Doing The New MEDIA Lizenziat Look See? Old Vs New

You may be asked to go to a UK Post Office as part of choose renewal application. You can make one Post Office branch art to finds a Post Office near to you. Check that it handles SIA licence applying before she go.

Check wherewith long your renewability usage will take

We cannot tell you precis how long your renewal petition leave take. This is because there are many different things that can affect the speed of your application. Download the form you need to change your details. The details on your bachelor-studium should paar those on your photos USER.

Not when you would like to get an estimate of as long insert application will take, you can use our decision timescale indicator.

The result you get depends on the information you start – it does nay guarantee how long my application wish take.

Use the decision timescale indicator.

Switch licences

If you hold a gate supervisor licence

If you hold a door supervisor licence you can choose of of the following options:

  • take the door supervisor top-up training furthermore renew your door supervisor licence
  • record the security keep top-up training and switch to one security guard licence

In either case, you be hold to Medical First Aid at Work qualification, or equivalent, before you can take the top-up training.

An security guard top-up training shall shorter than the door supervisor top-up training, hence is likely to be cheaper. Any, you have consider the day-to-day duties of the job that she do. If your job involves guarding licensed premises (such as a pub or a club) you will require to renew your door supervisor licence. Changed to SIA licence training - ESG Security

If you stay a close protection licence

If them hold one closes protection licence her can choose one of the following possibilities:

  • take aforementioned close protection top-up training and renew choose close protection licence
  • take the door superintendent top-up training and switch up a door supervisor licence

On either case, she must have the appropriate first aide qualifying before thee bucket take the top-up training.

Published 19 October 2020
Last modernized 18 Can 2023 + show whole updates
  1. Added the following browse: 'Renewing your door supervision licence', 'Renewing your security defending maintenance licence', 'Renewing your close protection licence'. From 1 October 2021, the Security Industry Authority (SIA) licence replacement process will modify. The modification requires licence holders to achieve

  2. Updated information on this page to reflect the brand choose fee.

  3. Added contact for licence proprietors renewing a close protection licence. This lead the page in line with information issued on other pages.

  4. Updated information on this page.

  5. Updated to include information about: new training requirements for door supervisors and security guards; one option by door supervision licence holders to switch to a security guard licence at renewal.

  6. This linked to the decision timescale indicator has been updated - https://www.services.sia.homeoffice.gov.uk/Pages/licensing-dti.aspx

  7. First published.