The new codes have been developed by the IFBB (Independent Family Brewers of Britain) and BBPA (British Beer & Pub Association) in conjunction with Trust Inns, NewRiver Retail, Mitchells & Butlers and with the tenants’ representative groups on the PGB.
They coincide with the coming into force of the new, statutory regulation of the UK’s larger pub companies. The new codes will ensure that a voluntary system, covering pub company/tenant relationships, continues to operate for lessees and tenants of smaller companies and in Scotland, where the new the system of statutory regulation in England and Wales does not apply.
The new codes replace Industry Framework Code Six (IFC6) and individual company codes now cease to operate. As with IFC6, the PGB will oversee the new codes, ensuring that lessees and tenants covered by them will continue to enjoy access to low cost arbitration of rent and other disputes, through PIRRS (Pub Industry Rent Review Scheme) and PICA-Service (Pub Independent Consiliation and Abritration Service) which will continue to be administered by the BII.