PART 4The Pubs Code Adjudicator and the Pubs Code

Pubs Code

46Review of Pubs Code

1

The Secretary of State must review the operation of the Pubs Code for each review period.

2

The first review period is the period beginning on the date on which the Pubs Code comes into force and ending 2 years after the following 31 March.

3

Subsequent review periods are each successive period of 3 years after the first review period.

4

As soon as practicable after a review period, the Secretary of State must—

a

publish a report of the findings of the review for that period, and

b

lay a copy of the report before Parliament.

5

In particular, the report must set out—

a

the extent to which, in the Secretary of State’s opinion, the Pubs Code is consistent with the principles set out in section 42(3), and

b

any revisions of the Pubs Code which, in the Secretary of State’s opinion, would enable the Pubs Code to reflect more fully those principles.