{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-pubs-code-regulations-2024/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-pubs-code-regulations-2024/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2024/193",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Pubs Code Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-pubs-code-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Requirement to offer a guest beer agreement",
  "text": "(1) A pub-owning business must offer to enter into a guest beer agreement with the tied-pub tenant at the tenant’s request.\n(2) A pub-owning business need not offer to enter into a guest beer agreement where, on the request date, the tied-pub tenant and the pub-owning business have an existing guest beer agreement which meets the criteria in regulation 20.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in force at 30.3.2025, see reg. 1(2)(c) (as substituted by S.S.I. 2025/92, regs. 1, 3(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/193/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:39:55.808849+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."
}