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Legislation
Employment Rights Act 1996

Part IVA Protected disclosures

  • Section 43A Meaning of “protected disclosure”.
  • Section 43B Disclosures qualifying for protection.
  • Section 43C Disclosure to employer or other responsible person.
  • Section 43D Disclosure to legal adviser.
  • Section 43E Disclosure to Minister of the Crown.
  • Section 43F Disclosure to prescribed person.
  • Section 43FA Prescribed persons: duty to report on disclosures of information
  • Section 43G Disclosure in other cases.
  • Section 43H Disclosure of exceptionally serious failure.
  • Section 43J Contractual duties of confidentiality.
  • Section 43K Extension of meaning of “worker” etc. for Part IVA.
  • Section 43KA Application of this Part and related provisions to police
  • Section 43L Other interpretative provisions.
  1. Part IVA
  2. Disclosure to prescribed person.

Section 43F | Disclosure to prescribed person. F1

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)A qualifying disclosure is made in accordance with this section if the worker—

(a)makes the disclosure ... to a person prescribed by an order made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this section, andF2

(b)reasonably believes—

(i)that the relevant failure falls within any description of matters in respect of which that person is so prescribed, and

(ii)that the information disclosed, and any allegation contained in it, are substantially true.

(2)An order prescribing persons for the purposes of this section may specify persons or descriptions of persons, and shall specify the descriptions of matters in respect of which each person, or persons of each description, is or are prescribed.

Notes

  1. F1

    Pt. IVA (ss. 43A-43L) inserted (2.7.1998 for specified purposes and otherwise 2.7.1999) by 1998 c. 23, s. 1; S.I. 1999/1547, art. 2

  2. F2

    Words in s. 43F(1)(a) omitted (25.6.2013) by virtue of Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), ss. 18(1)(c), 103(2) (with s. 24(6))

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