{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/midland-metro-birmingham-eastside-extension-order-2020/article-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/midland-metro-birmingham-eastside-extension-order-2020/article-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/141",
  "legislation_title": "The Midland Metro (Birmingham Eastside Extension) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/midland-metro-birmingham-eastside-extension-order-2020",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Power to construct temporary tramways",
  "text": "(1) The Authority may, if it considers it necessary or expedient in consequence of any street works executed or proposed to be executed in a street along which an authorised street tramway is constructed—\n(a) remove or discontinue the operation of the authorised street tramway; and\n(b) lay, maintain and operate in that street or in a street near to that street a temporary tramway in place of the authorised street tramway.\n(2) The powers conferred by this article may only be exercised with the consent of the street authority but such consent may not be unreasonably withheld.\n(3) The provisions of articles 10(2) (power to alter layout, etc., of streets), 11 (power to keep apparatus in streets), 12 (power to execute street works) and 43 (traffic signs) apply in relation to temporary tramways laid under the powers conferred by this article as they apply in relation to authorised street tramways.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/141/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:33:38.768812+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."
}