# Tied Pubs (Scotland) Act 2021, Section 19: Reports on avoidance


(1) The adjudicator must report to the Scottish Ministers on cases of pub-owning businesses engaging in avoidance activity.
(2) In subsection (1), “avoidance activity” means acts or omissions (or both) by a pub-owning business that are—
(a) unfair, and
(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.
(3) A report under subsection (1) must include recommendations as to—
(a) action to be taken to prevent pub-owning businesses from engaging in the activity reported on, and
(b) how to provide redress for tied-pub tenants affected by those activities.
(4) Within 3 months of receiving a report under subsection (1), the Scottish Ministers must make publicly available a statement setting out—
(a) what action they intend to take to protect tied-pub tenants from the activities reported on by the adjudicator, or
(b) if they do not intend to take any such action, the reasons for that decision.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/17/section/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/tied-pubs-scotland-act-2021/section-19
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