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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tyne-and-wear-passenger-transport-sunderland-order-1998/article-43",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3269",
  "legislation_title": "The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport (Sunderland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tyne-and-wear-passenger-transport-sunderland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/43",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Disclosure of confidential information",
  "text": "A person who—\n(a) enters a factory, workshop or workplace in pursuance of the provisions of article 17 or article 18 above; and\n(b) discloses to any person any information obtained by him relating to any manufacturing process or trade secret;\nshall be 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 performing his duty in connection with the purposes for which he 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/1998/3269/article/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:11:43.503088+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."
}