{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-2015/section-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-2015/section-72.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/26",
  "legislation_title": "Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/small-business-enterprise-and-employment-act-2015",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Interpretation: other provision",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“the Adjudicator” means the Pubs Code Adjudicator;\n“arbitration agreement” has the same meaning as in section 6 of the Arbitration Act 1996;\n“financial year” means a period of 12 months beginning with 1 April and ending with 31 March;\n“group undertaking” has the meaning given by section 1161 of the Companies Act 2006;\n“independent assessor” has the meaning given by section 44;\n“market rent” and “market rent only option” have the meanings given by section 43;\n“MRO procedure” has the meaning given by section 44;\n“MRO-compliant”, in relation to a tenancy or licence, has the meaning given by section 43;\n“parallel rent assessment” has such meaning as may be prescribed in regulations made by the Secretary of State;\n“product or service tie” means a product tie or a service tie;\n“product tie” means any contractual obligation, other than a stocking requirement, of a tied pub tenant that a product to be sold at the tied pub must be supplied by—\n(a)the landlord of the tied pub or a person who is a group undertaking in relation to the landlord, or\n(b)a person nominated by the landlord or by a person who is group undertaking in relation to the landlord;\n“the Pubs Code” means the regulations under section 42;\n“service tie” means any contractual obligation of a tied pub tenant to receive a service supplied by—\n(a)the landlord of the tied pub or a person who is a group undertaking in relation to the landlord, or\n(b)a person nominated by the landlord or by a person who is a group undertaking in relation to the landlord;\n“stocking requirement” has the meaning given by section 68.\n(2) In this Part, references to “rent”, in relation to a licence to occupy, are to be read as references to the fee payable in respect of the licence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/26/section/72",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:47.994452+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."
}