{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-42.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/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Duty to appoint a compliance officer",
  "text": "(1) A pub-owning business must appoint a suitably qualified employee to be the compliance officer, whose role is to verify the pub-owning business’s compliance with these Regulations.\n(2) The pub-owning business must ensure that the compliance officer—\n(a) is provided with the resources necessary to carry out his or her role, including information relating to the pub-owning business’s obligations under these Regulations;\n(b) is entitled to contact the business development managers to discuss matters relating to those obligations;\n(c) makes himself or herself reasonably available to tied pub tenants and any other persons acting on their behalf who may have a query relating to these Regulations;\n(d) is independent of, and is not managed by, the business development managers;\n(e) is entitled to discuss with tied pub tenants the reasons for any decisions made by the pub-owning business under these Regulations;\n(f) is entitled to discuss with the Adjudicator matters relating to the pub-owning business’s compliance with these Regulations;\n(g) for the purposes of the annual compliance report, maintains records of the training received by the business development managers.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 42 in force at 21.7.2016, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/790/regulation/42",
    "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."
}