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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/midland-metro-birmingham-eastside-extension-order-2020/schedule-11/paragraph-1",
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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": "schedule/11/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of this Schedule, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the Authority and the Agency, have effect.\n(2) In this Schedule—\n“the Agency” means the Environment Agency;\n“construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal and “construct” and “constructed” are construed accordingly;\n“drainage work” means any watercourse and includes any land which provides or is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any watercourse and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage, flood defence or tidal monitoring;\n“plans” includes sections, drawings, specifications and method statements;\n“specified work” means so much of any work or operation authorised by this Order as is in, on, under, over or within 9 metres of a drainage work or is otherwise likely to—\n(a) affect any drainage work or the volumetric rate of flow of water in or flowing to or from any drainage work; or\n(b) affect the flow, purity or quality of water in any watercourse or ground water; and\n“watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows (whether or not the flow is intermittent) except a public sewer or drain.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/141/schedule/11/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}