Apply for an SIA licence
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What to do before you apply, and how to apply for a licence yourself or through your employer.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
What to do before you apply, and how to apply for a licence yourself or through your employer. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Get ready for our application checks
- Identity
- Address history
- Age
- Qualifications
- Criminal record
- Right to work in the UK
- Mental health
- Other information we look at
- Check you have the right documents to prove your identity
- Group A documents
- Group B documents
- Photo of yourself
- If we ask you to provide identity documents to us
- Check you can afford the licence fee (if you are applying for a licence yourself)
- Apply for a licence yourself
Source and licence
Security Industry Authority
AttributionSecurity Industry Authority, ‘Apply for an SIA licence’ (updated 19 June 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026