Regulation 32 Failure to acknowledge the tenant’s notice, provide a full response etc.

(1)

This regulation applies where a pub-owning business has received an MRO notice.

(2)

Where—

(a)

the pub-owning business does not send a full response under regulation 29(3) or (4) within the period of response;

(b)

the tied pub tenant considers that the pub-owning business’s full response does not comply with other requirements of regulation 29; or

(c)

the tied pub tenant disagrees with the pub-owning business’s statement under regulation 29(4)(a),

the tenant or the pub-owning business may refer the matter to the Adjudicator^f1.

(3)

Where the tied pub tenant or the pub-owning business intends to make a referral under paragraph (2), the tenant and the pub-owning business must notify each other, in writing, of their intention to do so before the referral is made.

(4)

A referral under paragraph (2) must be made within the period of 14 days beginning with the day after the end of the period of response.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 72(1) of SBEEA 2015 defines “the Adjudicator”.