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Factsheets

All of our factsheets summarise the main parts of the Pubs Code and its processes

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Factsheets

The PCA has produced a series of factsheets explaining ‘What Tied Pub Tenants Need to Know’. These are designed to answer the major questions that tenants ask the PCA about the Pubs Code and its processes.

Taking on a Tied Pub

  • Duties of a Pub-owning Business in Connection to New Tied Agreements
  • Short Agreements
  • Pub Franchise Agreements

Negotiating your rent

  • Rent Proposals
  • Rent Assessments and Rent Assessment Proposals

Day to Day Management

  • Business Development Managers and Code Compliance Officers
  • Insurance
  • Repairs and Dilapidations

Dealing with the Unexpected

  • Trigger Events
  • Significant Increase in Price

Market Rent Only

  • Market Rent Only (MRO) Rights
  • Rent under a Market Rent Only (MRO) compliant tenancy and Independent Assessors
  • Investment Exception

Assignment, Renewal and Sale of the Pub

  • Assignments
  • Duties of a Pub-owning Business in Connection to renewal of a pub agreement
  • Extended Protection under the Pubs Code

Other

  • Code avoidance and reports to the Secretary of State
  • Getting Help and Support with the Pubs Code and Arbitration
  • Pubs Code Arbitration Disputes
  • Tenant timeline
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This website is intended to aid understanding of the Pubs Code and its impact. 

It does not provide legal advice or substitute the Pubs Code legal framework.