Regulation 3 Prohibition of discrimination because of protected disclosure

An NHS employer^f1 must not discriminate^f2 against an applicant^f3 because it appears to the NHS employer that the applicant has made a protected disclosure^f4.

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Footnotes

f1: See section 49B(6) and (7) of the 1996 Act read with regulation 2 of these Regulations as to the definition of “NHS employer”.
f2: See section 49B(3) of the 1996 Act as to when an NHS employer discriminates against an applicant for the purposes of section 49B(1) of that Act.
f3: See section 49B(2) of the 1996 Act as to the definition of “applicant”.
f4: See sections 43A and 235 of the 1996 Act as to the definition of “protected disclosure”. Section 43A was inserted by section 1 of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (c.23) (“the 1998 Act”). Section 235 was amended, so far as relevant, by section 15 of the 1998 Act.