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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/midland-metro-birmingham-eastside-extension-order-2020/article-49",
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  "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/49",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Disclosure of confidential information",
  "text": "A person who—\n(a) enters a factory, workshop or workplace under the provisions of article 22 (works to safeguard buildings and the operation of the authorised tramway) or article 23 (power to survey and investigate land, etc.); 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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/141/article/49",
    "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."
}