{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-32.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/790",
  "legislation_title": "The Pubs Code etc. Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "MRO response: procedural or event dispute",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where a pub-owning business has received an MRO notice.\n(2) Where there is a procedural or event dispute the tenant or pub-owning business may refer the matter to the Adjudicator.\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies where the tied pub tenant or the pub-owning business intends to make a referral under paragraph (2).\n(4) Before the referral is made the tenant, or, as the case may be, the pub-owning business must notify the other, in writing, of that intention.\n(5) A referral under paragraph (2) must be made within the period of 14 days beginning with the earlier of—\n(a) the day after the day on which the tied pub tenant receives a full response under regulation 29(3) or (4) (whether or not regulation 29(5A) is complied with); or\n(b) the day after the end of the period of response.\n(6) In these Regulations a “procedural or event dispute” is, subject to paragraph (7), 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 the other requirements of regulation 29; or\n(c) the tied pub tenant disagrees with the pub-owning business’s reasons under regulation 29(4)(b).\n(7) A procedural or event dispute does not include a situation where the tied pub tenant considers that a proposed tenancy or licence in the full response is not MRO-compliant.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 32 substituted (1.4.2022) by The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 and Pubs Code etc. (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/341), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 8 (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/790/regulation/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:21:16.726869+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."
}