{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-51.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/51",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Flow monitoring devices",
  "text": "(1) A pub-owning business must not subject a tied pub tenant to any detriment, or impose any liabilities on the tenant, as a result of any reading taken from a flow monitoring device, without additional evidence in connection with the purchase and stock of alcohol at the tied pub.\n(2) A “flow monitoring device” means a device which is at the tied pub at the direction of the pub-owning business—\n(a) to measure the amount of alcohol being sold by the tied pub tenant; and\n(b) for the purposes of verifying that the tenant does not sell alcohol at the tied pub in contravention of the terms of the tenancy or licence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 51 in force at 21.7.2016, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 68(9) of SBEEA 2015 defines “alcohol”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/790/regulation/51",
    "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."
}