Regulation 22 Effect of the rent assessment or the assessment of money payable in lieu of rent

(1)

Where a pub-owning business conducts an assessment under regulation 19(1), the rent, or money payable in lieu of rent, which is payable under the tenancy or licence at the beginning of the assessment, is payable until the end of the assessment.

(2)

The new rent is payable with effect from the day after the end of that assessment.

(3)

An assessment ends—

(a)

in the case of an assessment which is conducted under regulation 19(1)(a)—

(i)

on the rent review date;

(ii)

if later, on the date on which the tied pub tenant and the pub-owning business agree the new rent in writing;

(b)

in the case of an assessment which is conducted at the tied pub tenant’s request under regulation 19(1)(b)—

(i)

at the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the day on which the rent assessment proposal was provided to the tied pub tenant; or

(ii)

if later, on the date on which the tied pub tenant and the pub-owning business agree the new rent in writing.

(4)

But where—

(a)

before the rent assessment is agreed, the tied pub tenant gives an MRO notice; and

(b)

the tied pub tenant and the pub-owning business agree, in writing, a proposal as to the matters mentioned in regulation 34(2)(a) and (b),

the rent assessment ends on the day on which those matters are agreed.