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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/midland-metro-birmingham-city-centre-extension-etc-land-acquisition-and-variation-order-2016/article-43",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/545",
  "legislation_title": "The Midland Metro (Birmingham City Centre Extension, etc.) (Land Acquisition and Variation) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/midland-metro-birmingham-city-centre-extension-etc-land-acquisition-and-variation-order-2016",
  "path": "article/43",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Disclosure of confidential information",
  "text": "A person who—\n(a) enters a factory, workshop or workplace under article 16 (safeguarding works to buildings) or 18 (power to survey and investigate land); and\n(b) discloses to any person any information obtained as a result of that entry and relating to any manufacturing process or trade secret,\nis guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale unless the disclosure is made in the course of that person’s performance of a duty in connection with the purposes for which the person was authorised to enter the land.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 43 in force at 14.6.2016, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/545/article/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:23:53.271420+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}