Tied Pubs (Scotland) Act 2021 implementation - food and drink: equality impact assessment

Background

The Scottish Pubs Code will cover arrangements such as the process for tenants to request a Market Rent Only (MRO) lease (removing all service or product ties), circumstances where a MRO lease cannot be offered, guest beer agreements (where a tenant can select and stock one beer of its choosing), financial penalties for non-compliance with the code, information requirements on pub-owning businesses and it can also place other requirements on pub-owning businesses.

The Act also requires Scottish Ministers to appoint a Scottish Pubs Code Adjudicator to apply and enforce the code, including arbitrating in disputes about non-compliance between tenant and the pub-owning business.