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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-prescribed-persons-reports-on-disclosures-of-information-regulations-2017/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111154359",
  "legislation_title": "The Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-prescribed-persons-reports-on-disclosures-of-information-regulations-2017",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nUnder section 43F of the Employment Rights Act 1996, whistleblowers may qualify for employment protections if they disclose information to a “prescribed person”. The list of prescribed persons is in the Schedule to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014. These Regulations specify requirements for prescribed persons to report annually on disclosures of information that they receive from workers.\nRegulation 3 requires the relevant prescribed persons to report on disclosures from workers, and stipulates the length of the reporting period being a 12 month period. It does not require reporting on any disclosures which the relevant prescribed person reasonably believes does not fall within the matters for which it is prescribed.\nRegulation 4 sets out how and when the report must be published.\nRegulation 5 sets out the information which must be included in the report.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no significant impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111154359/note",
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  "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."
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