Security Industry Authority (SIA)

The Private Security Industry Act and The Security Industry Authority (SIA)

In 2001 the Private Security Industry Act was passed. This has been amended and was finally enacted around 2004. The Act sets out some very strict rules for those wishing to engage in Vehicle Immobilisation (Car clamping/towing/blocking in) involving a release charge and list some pretty stiff penalties for breaches including fines up to £5000 and 5 years in jail.

From 1ST October 2012 The Government Outlawed clamping a vehicle and removal from private land

Part of the act authorised the setting up of an administrative body to oversee the licensing of Security Industry Operators and staff. This body is the Security Industry Authority. The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has a website (www.the-sia.org.uk). You can obtain links to all the relevant legislation relating to the SIA. More importantly you can perform an online check to verify the license of any SIA licensed individual.

Licenses fall into two categories – frontline and non-frontline.

Frontline licenses are required by all staff who will be undertaking day to day security duties including vehicle immobilisation.

Non-frontline licenses are required by the principals of firms whose employees undertake duties licensable under the PSI act.

Landowners have a responsibility to ensure that anyone performing vehicle immobilisation for a fee on their land is licensed by the SIA. There are pretty stiff penalties for landlords if they allow unlicensed operators to immobilise vehicles on their land on their behalf (i.e. acting as their agent).

The SIA do not regulate
•    the amount of the release fee
•    the time taken to release a vehicle
•    the adequacy of signage around the site warning that vehicles may be immobilised
•    the complaints procedure of the company employing the vehicle immobiliser

They SIA advise that:

“If a vehicle immobiliser uses threatening behaviour or intimidation they may be committing a criminal offence and we would recommend that you report such instances to the police”.

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1. Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours
2. Parked or loading / unloading in a restricted street where waiting and loading / unloading restrictions are in force
4. Parked in a meter bay when penalty time is indicated
5. Parked after the expiry of paid for time
6. Parked without clearly displaying a valid pay & display ticket or voucher
7. Parked with payment made to extend the stay beyond initial time
8. Parked at an out-of-order meter during controlled hours
9. Parked displaying multiple pay and display tickets where prohibited.
11. Parked without payment of the parking charge
12. Parked in a residents’ or shared use parking place or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket issued for that place where required, or without payment of the parking charge
14. Parked in an electric vehicles’ charging place during restricted hours without charging
16. Parked in a permit space or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit where required.
19. Parked in a residents' or shared use parking place or zone with an invalid virtual permit or displaying an invalid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket, or after the expiry of paid for time
20. Parked in a part of a parking place marked by a yellow line where waiting is prohibited - a loading gap
21. Parked wholly or partly in a suspended bay or space.
22. Re-parked in the same parking place or zone within one hour after leaving.
23. Parked in a parking place or area not designated for that class of vehicle
24. Not parked correctly within the markings of the bay or space
25. Parked in a loading place or bay during restricted hours without loading
26. Parked in a special enforcement area more than 50 cm from the edge of the carriageway and not within a designated parking place
27. Parked in a special enforcement area adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge lowered to meet the level of the carriageway
28. Parked in a special enforcement area on part of the carriageway raised to meet the level of a footway, cycle track or verge.
29. Failing to comply with a one-way restriction
30. Parked for longer than permitted
31. Entering and stopping in a box junction when prohibited
32. Failing to proceed in the direction shown by the arrow on a blue sign
33. Using a route restricted to certain vehicles
34. Being in a bus lane
37. Failing to give way to oncoming vehicles
38. Failing to comply with a sign indicating that vehicular traffic must pass to the specified side of the sign
40. Parked in a designated disabled person’s parking place without displaying a valid disabled person’s badge in the prescribed manner.
45. Stopped on a taxi rank
46. Stopped where prohibited (on a red route or clearway)
47. Stopped on a restricted bus stop or stand
48. Stopped in a restricted area outside a school, a hospital or a fire, police or ambulance station when prohibited.
50. Performing a prohibited turn
51. Failing to comply with a no entry restriction
52. Failing to comply with a prohibition on certain types of vehicle
53. Failing to comply with a restriction on vehicles entering a pedestrian zone
54. Failing to comply with a restriction on vehicles entering and waiting in a pedestrian zone
62. Parked with one or more wheels on or over a footpath or any part of a road other than a carriageway.
99. Stopped on a pedestrian crossing or crossing area marked by zigzags

1. Parked in a restricted street during prescribed hours
2. Parked or loading / unloading in a restricted street where waiting and loading / unloading restrictions are in force
4. Parked in a meter bay when penalty time is indicated
5. Parked after the expiry of paid for time
6. Parked without clearly displaying a valid pay & display ticket or voucher
7. Parked with payment made to extend the stay beyond initial time
8. Parked at an out-of-order meter during controlled hours
9. Parked displaying multiple pay and display tickets where prohibited.
11. Parked without payment of the parking charge
12. Parked in a residents’ or shared use parking place or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket issued for that place where required, or without payment of the parking charge
14. Parked in an electric vehicles’ charging place during restricted hours without charging
16 Parked in a permit space or zone without a valid virtual permit or clearly displaying a valid physical permit where required.
19. Parked in a residents' or shared use parking place or zone with an invalid virtual permit or displaying an invalid physical permit or voucher or pay and display ticket, or after the expiry of paid for time
20. Parked in a part of a parking place marked by a yellow line where waiting is prohibited - a loading gap
21 Parked wholly or partly in a suspended bay or space.
22. Re-parked in the same parking place or zone within one hour after leaving.
23. Parked in a parking place or area not designated for that class of vehicle
24. Not parked correctly within the markings of the bay or space
25. Parked in a loading place or bay during restricted hours without loading
26. Parked in a special enforcement area more than 50 cm from the edge of the carriageway and not within a designated parking place
27. Parked in a special enforcement area adjacent to a footway, cycle track or verge lowered to meet the level of the carriageway
28. Parked in a special enforcement area on part of the carriageway raised to meet the level of a footway, cycle track or verge.
40. Parked in a designated disabled person’s parking place without displaying a valid disabled person’s badge in the prescribed manner.
45. Stopped on a taxi rank
46. Stopped where prohibited (on a red route or clearway)
47. Stopped on a restricted bus stop or stand
48. Stopped in a restricted area outside a school, a hospital or a fire, police or ambulance station when prohibited.
62. Parked with one or more wheels on or over a footpath or any part of a road other than a carriageway.
99. Stopped on a pedestrian crossing or crossing area marked by zigzags