{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-pubs-code-regulations-2024/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-pubs-code-regulations-2024/regulation-22.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/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Process for offering a guest beer agreement",
  "text": "(1) The tied-pub tenant may request a guest beer agreement from the pub-owning business and any such request must be in writing.\n(2) 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.\n(3) An offer to enter into a guest beer agreement must include information on any service equipment charge where applicable to the guest beer agreement.\n(4) The pub-owning business and the tenant are to meet their own legal costs in connection with entering into a guest beer agreement.\n(5) The tied-pub tenant and the pub-owning business must take reasonable steps to minimise—\n(a) the costs, and\n(b) the administrative burden\nof entering into a guest beer agreement.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 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/22",
    "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."
}