{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-beer-tied-estate-order-1989/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-beer-tied-estate-order-1989/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2390",
  "legislation_title": "The Supply of Beer (Tied Estate) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/supply-of-beer-tied-estate-order-1989",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and article 8 below, it shall be unlawful on and after 1st November 1992 for any person to make or carry out an agreement if the carrying out of the agreement would result in any person becoming either—\n(a) a brewer who holds interests in more than two thousand licensed premises and with respect to whom the provisions of the Schedule to this Order are not satisfied, or\n(b) a member of a large brewery group with respect to which the provisions of the Schedule to this Order are not satisfied.\n(2) This article shall not apply in respect of any agreement by which a body corporate, by acquiring shares in another body corporate or any interest in such shares, would become a member of a large brewery group or cause the other body corporate to become a member of such a group.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2390/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:30:57.674561+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."
}