# The Scottish Pubs Code Regulations 2024, Regulation 22: Process for offering a guest beer agreement


(1) The tied-pub tenant may request a guest beer agreement from the pub-owning business and any such request must be in writing.
(2) The pub-owning business must send the tenant an offer to enter into a guest beer agreement in writing as soon as possible and in any event within 4 weeks beginning with the day on which the tenant’s request was received by the business.
(3) An offer to enter into a guest beer agreement must include information on any service equipment charge where applicable to the guest beer agreement.
(4) The pub-owning business and the tenant are to meet their own legal costs in connection with entering into a guest beer agreement.
(5) The tied-pub tenant and the pub-owning business must take reasonable steps to minimise—
(a) the costs, and
(b) the administrative burden
of entering into a guest beer agreement.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2024/9780111060063/regulation/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-pubs-code-regulations-2024/regulation-22
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