Latest update: 23/01/17

Abbreviation followed by its meaning:

• 3P - Third Party/ies
• 5+5 - Tenancy Agreement for five years with an option for the tenant to renew for a further five years if the tenant is in compliance with the lease terms.
• 9L- EQV - 9 Litre equivalent cases

A-B

• A/C - Account or Accountant
• ACCA - Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• ACV - Asset of Community Value
• ADR - Alternative Dispute Resolution i.e. mediation, arbitration, PACT
• AGA - Authorised Guarantee Agreement - Permitted form of guarantee by a tenant who is assigning their lease.
• AGM - Annual General Meeting
• ALL ER - All England Law Reports
• ALMR - Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers
• AMS - Asbestos Management Survey
• AOP - Asset Optimisation Panel
• AOS - Acknowledgment of Service - Court document
• APP-STPG - All Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group
• AR - Administrative Receivership
• AT - Admiral Taverns
• ATL - Agreement to Lease
• ATS - Agreement to Surrender
• AWP - Amusements with Prizes i.e. fruit machines
• B&T - Breach and Terminate - i.e. forfeiture of the Lease.
• BB - Brewer's Barrel - 36 gallons
• BBPA - British Beer & Pubs Association
• BC - Beacon
• BCF - Beer Cider & Flavoured Alcoholic Beverages
• BCY - Bankruptcy
• BD - Business Development
• BDM - Business Development Manager
• BEC - Business & Enterprise Committee - Investigated Pubs in 2008/2009
• BFA - British Franchise Association
• BII - British Institute of Innkeeping
• BIIBAS - British Institute of Innkeeping Benchmarking and Accreditation Service
• BIS - Department for Business Innovation & Skills
• BISC - Business Innovation& Skills Committee - Investigated Pubs in 2009
• BP - Bermondsey Pub Company Limited
• BPC - Bermondsey Pub Company
• BW - Bristol & South Wales

C-D

• C - Claimant
• C/O - Compliance Officer
• C/O - Contracted Out (of the LTA 1954)
• CA - Court of Appeal
• CAM - Customer Account Manager - Vianet personnel replaced by Retail Standards Executives
• CAMRA - Campaign for Real Ale
• CBK or CB - Call Back - Sales Talk notes
• CC - Competition Commission
• CC - Counterclaim
• CC - County Court
• CC - Cubic Centimetres
• CC - Customer Collect or Courier Collection - Sales Talk notes
• CCA - County Courts Act 1984
• CCJ - County Court Judgment
• CCR - County Court Rules - mostly abolished by the CPR
• CE - Conformité Européenne - Manufacturing standard - usually in the context of a CE Mark
• CE - Customer Enquiry - Sales Talk notes.
• CEO - Chief Executive Officer
• CF - Claim Form
• CFO - Chief Financial Officer
• CHD - Chancery Division of the Court
• CIMA - Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
• CL - Cumbria & Lancashire
• CLO - Cash Last Order
• CLSF - Community Legal Service Fund
• CMC - Case Management Conference - Court hearing at which directions are set
• CMP - Code of Measuring Practice
• CN - Counternotice - Court document or LTA 1954 Notice
• CN - Credit Note
• CNTBUW - Consent not to be unreasonably withheld
• COD - Cash on delivery
• COD - Consent Order
• COMP - Compensation
• COMP - Compliant
• COP - Code of Practice
• CP12 - Landlord's Gas Certification
• CPI - Consumer Price Index
• CPR - Civil Procedure Rules 1996
• CRAR - Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery - replaced the Law of Distraint
• CRC - Cyclic Redundancy Check - 16 bit code used to verify data from flow monitors
• CRI - "Customer Rang In" - Entry on sales talk notes
• CRN - Company Registration Number
• CRS - Charles Russell Speechley
• CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility
• CU - Craft Union Pub Company
• CUPC - Craft Union Pub Company
• CVA - Company Voluntary Arrangement
• CVL - Creditor's Voluntary Liquidation
• CWO - Cash with order
• D - Defendant
• D&C - Defence and Counterclaim
• DBU - Divisional Business Unit
• DC - Draught Cider
• DCLG - Department for Communities & Local Government
• DCMS - Department of Culture Media & Sport
• DD - Direct Debit
• DD - Divisional Director
• DDS - Direct Delivery System run by SIBA
• Dilaps - Dilapidations - i.e. disrepair and poor decoration.
• DMS - Dispense Monitoring System - run by Vianet
• DOV - Deed of Variation
• DPA - Data Protection Act 1972
• DPS - Designated Premises Supervisor
• DS - Departure Statement
• DTI - Department of Trade & Industry

E-F

• EA - East Anglia
• EBITDA - Earnings before Interest Taxes Depreciation & Amortisation
• EDIS - Electronic Draught Information System - The control box for Brulines flow monitoring system
• EGLR - Estates Gazette Law Reports
• EGM - Extraordinary General Meeting
• EICR - Electrical Installation Condition Report
• EIP - Enterprise Inns Plc
• EM - East Midlands
• EMRO'S - Early Morning Alcohol Restriction Orders
• EOLRR - End of Lease Rent Review
• EOTRR - End of Term Rent Review
• EPC - Energy Performance Certificate
• EPOS - Electronic Point Of Sale
• EPS - Earnings per Share
• ESOS - Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme Regulations 2014
• ETA - Estimated Time of Arrival
• ETI - Enterprise Inns Plc
• EU - European Union
• EY - Ernst & Young - Accountants
• F&F - Fixtures & Fittings
• F/H - Freehold
• FAB - Flavoured Alcoholic Beverages
• FK - Ferdinand Kelly
• FLVA - Federation of Licensed Victuallers Associations
• FME - Flow Monitoring Equipment
• FMO - Flats in Multiple Occupation
• FMR - Fair Market Rent
• FMT - Fair Maintainable Turnover or Trade
• FOIA - Freedom of Information Act
• FOT - Free of Tie
• FP & A - Financial Planning & Analysis
• FPC - Fair Pint Campaign
• FRC - Financial Reporting Council (UK)
• FRI - Full repairing and insuring lease
• FRI - Fully repairing and insuring - usually referring to a lease
• FRICS - Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• FSB - Federation of Small Businesses
• FT - Fully Tied
• FTEE - Full Time Employment Equivalent
• FTT - First Tier Tribunal of the Property Chamber - Effectively the Land Registry's Court
• FU - Full/normal delivery - Sales talk notes
• FY - Full Year

G-H

• G Gallon - 8 pints
• GBP - British Pounds
• GEA - Gross External Area
• GHG - Greenhouse Gas Emmissions Statement
• GIA - Gross Internal Area
• GL - Greater London
• GM - Greater Manchester
• GNK - Greene King
• GOV - Government
• GP - Gross Profit
• GSCOP - Groceries Supply Code of Practice
• HAUV - High(er) Alternative Use Value
• HC - High Court
• HC - Historic Copies of the Land Register
• HCEO - High Court Enforcement Officer - replaced Sheriffs
• HHSRS - Housing Health & Safety Rating System
• HL - Head Landlord
• HL - House of Lords - replaced by the Supreme Court
• HMCS - Her Majesty's Court Service
• HMLR - Her Majesty's Land Registry
• HMO - House in Multiple Occupation
• HMRC - Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs
• HOT - Heads of Terms
• HSWA - Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
• HUK - Heineken
• HY - Half year if we're having full year

I-L

• IA - Insolvency Act 1986
• IA - Independent Assessor
• IDS - Interim Dilapidations Schedule
• IED - Independent Expert Determination
• IEL - Inntrepreneur Estates Limited
• IFBB - Independent Family Brewers of Britain
• IFC - Industry Framework Code of Practice
• INRPT - Incentive Retail Partnership Tenancy
• IPC - Independent Pub Confederation
• IPC - Inntrepreneur Pub Company
• IR - Insolvency Rules 1986
• IR - Interest Rate
• IVA - Individual Voluntary Arrangement
• JDW - J D Wetherspoons
• JFL - Justice for Licencees - Campaign Group
• JSES - John Smith's Extra Smooth
• KNDL - Kuehne & Nagel - Distributors
• KPI - Key Performance Indicators
• L&T - Landlord & Tenant
• L/H - Leasehold
• L4L - Like for like
• LA - Licensing Act 2003
• LACORS - Local Authorities Co-ordinators of Regulatory Services
• LB - Leeds & Bradford
• LBA - Letter before Action
• LBSH - Licencee Business Support Helpline - run by the BII
• LDA - Law of Distress Amendment Act 1908
• LFL - Like for like
• LGA - Local Government Association
• LL Landline
• LL - Landlord
• LLP - Limited Liability Partnership
• LNL - Late Night Levy
• LNT - Landlord & Tenant
• LOLER - Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998
• LOU - Letter Of Undertaking - Signed by a tenant in relation to admitted buying in breach of the purchasing obligations
• LP(MP)A - Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 which sets out the rules for executing a deed
• LP(R)A - Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938 - restricts the right of forfeit on dilapidations if the lease is over 7 years with more that 3 years left to run.
• LPA - Law of Property Act 1925
• LR - Land Registry
• LRA - Land Registration Act 2002
• LS GAZR - Law Society Gazette Reports
• LSC - Legal Support Co-Ordinator
• LSCS - Law Society Conditions of Sale
• LSTM - Legal Support Team Manager
• LT(C)A - Landlord & Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 - introduced release of former tenants and guarantors
• LTA - Landlord & Tenant Act 1954
• LTA - Licence to Assign/Licence to Alter
• LTV - Licensed Trade Valuers

M-O

• MAB - Mitchells & Butler
• MARS - Marstons
• MAT - Moving Annual Total - gives the figure for the barrelage of a pub for 12 months preceding the MAT date
• MCB - Miniature Circuit Breaker
• MGD - Machine Gaming Duty
• ML - Millilitres
• MMC - Monopolies & Merger Commission - Investigation in 1986 led to the Beer Orders in 1989
• MPO - Minimum Purchase Obligation
• MRICS - Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• MRO - Market Rent Only - option for the tenant on the occurrence of a trigger event to seek a free of tie lease
• MRV - Market Rental Value
• MVL - Member's Voluntary Liquidation
• MX - Managed Expert
• NCS - National Conditions of Sale
• NE - North East
• NIA - Net Internal Area
• NICEIC - National Inspecting Council for Electrical Installation Contractors
• NLP - Non-Licensed Property
• NLW - National Living Wage
• NMO - National Measuring Office
• NNDR - National Non-Domestic Rateable Value
• NTBUW - Not to be unreasonably withheld - in terms of consent to sub-let, assign etc.
• NWML - National Weights & Measures Limited
• O/S - Other side - i.e. the opposing party in litigation
• OC - Official Copies of the Land Register
• OFT - Office of Fair Trading
• OMR - Open Market Rent
• OOP - Out of Possession
• OPS - Operations
• OR - Official Receiver - in charge of bankrupt individuals and insolvent companies
• OT - Other
• OTL - Original Tenant's Liability
• OTP - Option to Purchase

P-Q

• P&CR - Property & Compensation Reports
• P&L - Profit and Loss
• PA - Per Annum - i.e. yearly
• PA - Primary Authority
• PACE - Profit After Controllable Expenditure
• PACT - Professional Arbitration on Court Terms
• PAS - Pubs Advisory Service
• PAS - Primary Authority Scheme
• PAT - Portable Appliance Testing
• PBA - Pub Business Assessment
• PCA - Pubs' Code Adjudicator
• PCF - Pre Contract Form
• PCS - Provisional Completion Statement
• PCSR - Pub Condition Survey Report
• PEAT - Pre-Entry Awareness Training
• PGB - Pub Governing Body - in charge of the drafting of the Industry Framework Code
• PH - Public House
• PICAS - Pubs Independent Conciliation & Arbitration Service
• PIRRS - Pubs Independent Rent Review Scheme
• PL - Premises Licence
• PLA - Property Litigation Association
• PLC - Public Limited Company
• PM - Property Manager
• PMA - Publican's Morning Advertiser - Trade magazine
• POB - Pub Owning Business
• POC - Particulars of Claim
• PON - Purchase Order Number
• PP - Planning Permission
• PPC - Premium Packaged Cider
• PPL - Phonographic Performance Limited - Regulator of the use of recorded music.
• PPL - Premium Packaged Lager
• PRA - Parallel Rent Assessment - i.e. rent calculated on the basis of a free of tie lease.
• PRRA - Parallel Rent Review Assessment (see PRA)
• PRS - Performing Rights Society
• PUB - Punch Taverns
• QBD - Queens Bench Division of the Court
• QC - Queen's Counsel

R-S

• RAP - Rent Assessment Proposal
• RB - Read Back - Sales Talk notes
• RC - Restrictive Covenant
• RCCM - Regional Credit Control Managers
• RCJ - Royal Courts of Justice
• RCO - Retail Compliance Officer (now called Retail Standards Executive)
• REIT - Real Estate Investment Trust
• REO - Reasonably Efficient Operator
• REVPAR - Revenue Per Available Room
• RFP - Rent Free Period
• RICS - Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• RM - Regional Manager
• ROI - Return on Investment
• ROW - Right of Way
• RP - Rent Proposal
• RPA - Retail Partnership Agreement
• RPI - Retail Price Index
• RPIL - Lease with RPI rent reviews
• RPL - Retail Partnership Lease
• RPM - Regional Property Manager
• RPT - Retail Partnership Tenancy
• RRM - Rent Review Manager
• RSE - Retail Standards Executive
• RTDL - Ready to Drink Litres
• RV - Rateable Value
• RVS - Rateable Valuation Service
• S&N - Scottish & Newcastle now Star Pubs & Bars
• S&R - Surrender and Regrant
• S.146 - Notice under Section 146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 - a precursor to forfeiture of the Lease.
• s.25 - Landlord's notice under the LTA 1954. Can be opposed or unopposed to renewal
• s.26 - Tenant's notice under the LTA 1954 starting renewal procedure
• s.27 - Tenant's notice under the LTA 1954 bringing their rights to renew to an end
• SBEE - Small Business Enterprise & Employment Acts 2015 - contained provisions relating to Statutory Code and MRO
• SC - South Coast
• SC - Supreme Court
• SCORFA - Special Commercial or Financial Advantages
• SCPC - Standard Commercial Property Conditions
• SD - Stamp Duty
• SD - Statutory Demand
• SDLT - Stamp Duty Land Tax
• SE - South East
• SG - Sheffield & Grimsby
• SGH - Sprecher Greir Halberstam merged with Martineau Johnson and have now become Shakespeare Martineau
• SIB or SIBA - Society of Independent Brewers
• SIC - Standard Industrial Classification (Companies House listing)
• SID - Senior Independent Director
• SJE - Single Joint Expert
• SM - South Midlands
• SME - Small and Medium Enterprises
• SMS - Safety Management Solutions
• SNPE - Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises now Star Pubs & Bars
• SOAF - Statement of Agreed Facts
• SOD - Schedule of Dilapidations
• SS - Sussex & Surrey
• SSG - Strategic Safety Group
• ST - Semi Tied
• ST - Sub-Tenant
• SW - South West
• SWOT - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
• SWP - Skills with Prizes - i.e quiz machines

T-V

• TAW - Tenancy at Will
• TDS - Temporary Departure Statement
• TEN - Temporary Events Notice
• TIB - Trustee in Bankruptcy - appointed in relation to a bankrupt individual
• TIP - Tenant In Possession
• TISC - Trade & Industry Select Committee - Investigated Pubs in 2011
• TL - Truth Legal
• TMA - Tenancy Management Agreement
• TOP - Tenant Out of Possession
• TPO - Tree Preservation Order
• TPT - Tied Pub Tenant
• TR - Tie Release
• TRG - Trade Review Group
• TUPE - Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 as amended by the "Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014
• TV - Thames Valley
• UORR - Upward Only Rent Review
• UPPL - Unique Pub Properties Limited
• V1 - Version 1
• VAT - Value Added Tax
• VOA - Valuation Office Agency
• VP - Vacant Possession
• VRD - Volume Related Discount
• VRS - Variance Report Summary
• VTA - Variable Term Agreement
• VTL - Variable Term Lease
• VTL - Variance Trend Limit - limit at which the variance is flagged on the flow monitor reports
• VTS - Variance Trend Summary - Flow monitoring report

W-Z

• W/O - Without
• WIP - Work in Progress
• WLGA - Welsh Local Government Association
• WLR - Weekly Law Reports
• WM - West Midlands
• WMA - Weights & Measures Act
• WP - Without Prejudice
• WPC - Wellington Pub Company Plc
• WPP - Whitbread Pub Partnerships
• WPSAC - Without prejudice save as to costs
• WSM - Wines Spirits & Minerals
• YTD - Year to Date