Inspector Guidance Notes

This part of the site makes available the current internal instructions and guidance for AALS inspectors. They may be of interest and use to activity providers.

Inspector Guidance Notes (IGN) are issued by the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority (AALA). They are intended primarily for use by AALS inspectors to aid consistency.

The Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 2004 are goal-setting in their nature and do not give explicit detail regarding every aspect of adventure activity licensing. The guidance notes seek to assist consistent, proportionate and transparent application of the general principles and intent of the regulations on the ground. They may be used as a basis for formal decisions (e.g. when deciding the duration of a licence or determining a representation by a provider about a decision).

The guidance notes are kept under review and any new or amended ones are issued to the Licensing Service inspectors. When a guidance note is withdrawn it is removed from this site.

Guidance

• Guidance Section 1 - General interpretation
• Guidance Section 2 - Voluntary associations
• Guidance Section 3 - Local authority issues
• Guidance Section 4 - Schools
• Guidance Section 5 - Qualifications and technical advisers
• Guidance Section 6 - Technical issues
• Guidance Section 7 - Equipment
• Guidance Section 8 - Management topics

Notes

1. In the Guidance Notes, the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority is referred to as AALA. The Health and Safety Executive became the AALA on 1 April 2007.
2. The publication 'Guidance from the Licensing Authority on the Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 2004' is referred to as L77 and references to paragraph numbers in L77 refer to the 2007 edition of L77. L77 can be obtained from HSE Books - ISBN 978-0-7176-6243-2
3. The Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 2004 are referred to as AALR. References to regulation numbers refer to the AALR 2004.