Paragraph 16 Maintenance and repair

Where, before entering into a new agreement, a short agreement, or an agreement to renew a tenancy which not a protected 1954 Act tenancy, the pub-owning business is aware of any maintenance, repair or improvement works (“initial works”) which must be carried out to the premises to which the tenancy or licence relates—

(a)

a Schedule of Condition prepared before the initial works are carried out;

(b)

a list of the initial works which must be carried out;

(c)

the respective obligations of the tied pub tenant and the pub-owning business in relation to those works under the tenancy or licence;

(d)

details of any initial works which are required to be completed before the agreement or the renewal is in force including whether the pub-owning business or the tenant will be responsible for carrying them out;

(e)

where any of the initial works—

(i)

are to be carried out to improve the premises significantly; or

(ii)

require a significant investment of capital,

a sketch or an artist’s plan (if any) of those works; and

(f)

where any of the initial works are to be carried out after the agreement has been entered into or after the renewal has been agreed —

(i)

whether the pub-owning business or the tenant will be responsible for carrying out the works;

(ii)

the date on which the works must be completed; and

(iii)

any penalty in respect of a failure to complete the works, or to complete them by a certain date.