Regulation 22 Process for offering a guest beer agreementI1

The tied-pub tenant may request a guest beer agreement from the pub-owning business and any such request must be in writing.

The pub-owning business must send the tenant an offer to enter into a guest beer agreement in writing as soon as possible and in any event within 4 weeks beginning with the day on which the tenant’s request was received by the business.

An offer to enter into a guest beer agreement must include information on any service equipment charge where applicable to the guest beer agreement.

The pub-owning business and the tenant are to meet their own legal costs in connection with entering into a guest beer agreement.

The tied-pub tenant and the pub-owning business must take reasonable steps to minimise—

of entering into a guest beer agreement.