Change description : 2025-03-31 11:44:00: The PDF attachment ‘ACS approval: Annual assessment guidance’ and the HTML attachment ‘ACS approval: Guidance on Standard route assessment dates’ have both been deleted. Their contents has been combined and updated into a new HTML attachment called ‘ACS approval: Preparing for standard route annual assessment’. [Guidance and regulation]
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Use the ‘Guidance on transferring between ACS Assessment Schemes’ to understand how and when you can transfer between the standard and passport routes to approval.
Use the ‘Guidance on business entities and business name changes’ to understand how a change to your business may affect its ACS approval.
Use the ‘Change of circumstances form’ to tell us about significant changes to your business that are relevant to your ACS approval.
Use the ‘Absence of designated security service contracts policy’ to understand what we will do if you no longer provide security services in an activity for which you are approved.
The PDF attachment 'ACS approval: Annual assessment guidance' and the HTML attachment 'ACS approval: Guidance on Standard route assessment dates' have both been deleted. Their contents has been combined and updated into a new HTML attachment called 'ACS approval: Preparing for standard route annual assessment'.
5 October 2023
Replaced the 'ACS approval: Explanation of assessment due date' PDF document with the updated HTML version 'ACS approval: Guidance on Standard route assessment dates'.
4 May 2021
Replaced the 'ACS approval: Guidance on transferring between ACS assessment schemes' PDF document with an updated HTML version.