{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tied-pubs-scotland-act-2021/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tied-pubs-scotland-act-2021/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2021/17",
  "legislation_title": "Tied Pubs (Scotland) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tied-pubs-scotland-act-2021",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Reports on avoidance",
  "text": "(1) The adjudicator must report to the Scottish Ministers on cases of pub-owning businesses engaging in avoidance activity.\n(2) In subsection (1), “avoidance activity” means acts or omissions (or both) by a pub-owning business that are—\n(a) unfair, and\n(b) engaged in by the business in order to avoid, to the detriment of a tied-pub tenant, the operation of provision made by or under this Act.\n(3) A report under subsection (1) must include recommendations as to—\n(a) action to be taken to prevent pub-owning businesses from engaging in the activity reported on, and\n(b) how to provide redress for tied-pub tenants affected by those activities.\n(4) Within 3 months of receiving a report under subsection (1), the Scottish Ministers must make publicly available a statement setting out—\n(a) what action they intend to take to protect tied-pub tenants from the activities reported on by the adjudicator, or\n(b) if they do not intend to take any such action, the reasons for that decision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 in force at 24.6.2024 by S.S.I. 2024/136, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/17/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:28.936334+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."
}