{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-pubs-code-regulations-2024/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-pubs-code-regulations-2024/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Pre-entry training for prospective tenants",
  "text": "(1) Before entering into a lease of a tied pub with a prospective tenant, a pub-owning business must—\n(a) advise the prospective tenant to complete appropriate pre-entry training, and\n(b) give the prospective tenant information about providers of such training.\n(2) In this regulation, “appropriate pre-entry training” means training which includes material—\n(a) designed to raise awareness of the matters involved in operating a pub and entering into product ties and other agreements with landlords,\n(b) explaining a tied-pub tenant’s obligations and the responsibilities involved in operating a pub.\n(3) A pub-owning business is not required to give advice and information about appropriate pre-entry training to a prospective tenant who—\n(a) is currently, or\n(b) has been, within the period of three years ending on the day on which the lease is proposed to start,\na tied-pub tenant.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 30.3.2025, see reg. 1(2)(b) (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/9",
    "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."
}