{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-32.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111147481",
  "legislation_title": "The Pubs Code etc. Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Failure to acknowledge the tenant’s notice, provide a full response etc.",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a pub-owning business has received an MRO notice.\n(2) Where—\n(a) the pub-owning business does not send a full response under regulation 29(3) or (4) within the period of response;\n(b) the tied pub tenant considers that the pub-owning business’s full response does not comply with other requirements of regulation 29; or\n(c) the tied pub tenant disagrees with the pub-owning business’s statement under regulation 29(4)(a),\nthe tenant or the pub-owning business may refer the matter to the Adjudicator.\n(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.\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 72(1) of SBEEA 2015 defines “the Adjudicator”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111147481/regulation/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:08:05.274432+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}