{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-rights-act-1996-nhs-recruitment-protected-disclosure-regulations-2018/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111167519",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights Act 1996 (NHS Recruitment – Protected Disclosure) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-rights-act-1996-nhs-recruitment-protected-disclosure-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prohibition of discrimination because of protected disclosure",
  "text": "An NHS employer must not discriminate against an applicant because it appears to the NHS employer that the applicant has made a protected disclosure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 49B(6) and (7) of the 1996 Act read with regulation 2 of these Regulations as to the definition of “NHS employer”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "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."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 49B(2) of the 1996 Act as to the definition of “applicant”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111167519/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:04:58.842662+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."
}