{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pubs-code-etc-regulations-2016/regulation-60.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/60",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Arbitration commenced by pub-owning business",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where—\n(a) there is an arbitration agreement between a tied pub tenant and a pub-owning business;\n(b) the pub-owning business commences arbitral proceedings about a matter which is, or which includes, an MRO dispute between the pub-owning business and the tied pub tenant; and\n(c) the tied pub tenant would have been able to refer the MRO dispute to the Adjudicator (were it not for the commencement of arbitral proceedings by the pub-owning business) under —\n(i) regulation 32(2) (disputes in connection with the full response);\n(ii) regulation 32C(1) (disputes in connection with MRO non-compliance, etc.);\n(iia) regulation 33A(3) (disputes in connection with revised response);\n(iii) regulation 37(10) or (11) or 38(4) (disputes in connection with the independent assessor);\n(iv) regulation 39(3) (disputes in connection with a tenancy or licence after proposal agreed);\n(v) regulation 40 (disputes in connection with recovery of rent etc after MRO procedure);\n(vi) regulation 56(9), (10) or (11) (disputes in connection with the investment agreement).\n(2) The tied pub tenant may, by giving notice in writing to the pub-owning business and the Adjudicator, appoint the Adjudicator to arbitrate the MRO dispute.\n(3) A notice under paragraph (2) must be given—\n(a) where the arbitration agreement provides for the arbitrator to be appointed by a person other than the pub-owning business or the tied pub tenant, within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which that person notifies the tied pub tenant of the person proposed to be appointed as arbitrator;\n(b) otherwise, within the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which arbitral proceedings commenced.\n(4) Where the Adjudicator is appointed to arbitrate the MRO dispute (whether under paragraph (2) or otherwise) the Adjudicator must—\n(a) arbitrate the MRO dispute; or\n(b) appoint another person to arbitrate that dispute.\n(5) Section 14 of the Arbitration Act 1996 makes provision about the commencement of arbitral proceedings.\n(6) An “MRO dispute” is a dispute relating to the offer of a market rent only option.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 60(1)(c)(ii)(iia) substituted for reg. 60(1)(c)(ii) (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. 20 (with reg. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 60 in force at 21.7.2016, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c.23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/790/regulation/60",
    "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."
}