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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-west-midlands-combined-authority-key-route-network-amendment-order-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348283372",
  "legislation_title": "The West Midlands Combined Authority (Key Route Network) (Amendment) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-west-midlands-combined-authority-key-route-network-amendment-order-2026",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the West Midlands Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/510) (“the 2017 Order”) to allow the West Midlands Combined Authority (“the WMCA”) either to designate a road or proposed road in its area as a key route network road, or to remove such a designation, using the power provided by section 107ZA of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c. 20) (“the 2009 Act”).\nThe 2017 Order gives the WMCA the ability to exercise concurrently with the constituent councils certain functions in relation to “Combined Authority roads” under sections 83 to 85 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), sections 33, 33A and 36 of the Traffic Management Act 2004 (c. 18), the Street Works (Sharing of Costs of Works) (England) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3314) and the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3372). “Combined Authority roads” are specified in Schedule 1 to the 2017 Order.\nArticle 2 of this Order replaces references to “Combined Authority roads”, wherever the term appears in the 2017 Order, with references to “key route network roads” and omits Schedule 1 to that Order, which specifies highways that are Combined Authority roads. The new term “key route network roads” is defined with reference to section 107ZA(1) of the 2009 Act. These amendments will enable the WMCA to designate the roads in respect of which the above functions transferred by the 2017 Order are to apply.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no significant impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum is published alongside this instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348283372/note",
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  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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