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Regulation 2 Interpretation

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

In these Regulations—

  • “larger authority” means a person listed in Schedule 2 to the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014f1 which is not a smaller authority;

  • “relevant prescribed person” means a person prescribed for the purposes of section 43F of the Employment Rights Act 1996f2 other than—

    1. (a)

      a member of the House of Commons,

    2. (b)

      a Minster of the Crown,

    3. (c)

      a Welsh Minister,

    4. (d)

      a Scottish Minister,

    5. (e)

      the European Securities and Markets Authority, or

    6. (f)

      an auditor appointed to audit smaller authorities;

  • “smaller authority” has the meaning given by section 6 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014f3;

  • “workers’ disclosures” means disclosures of information made to a relevant prescribed person other than those which the relevant prescribed person has reason to believe—

    1. (a)

      were not made by a worker; or

    2. (b)

      were made by a worker on behalf of the worker’s employer.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

2014 c.2; relevant amendments to Schedule 2 are S.I. 2015/975 reg 2(2), the Deregulation Act 2015 (c.20), Schedule 13(3), paragraph 6(37), Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 (c.1), Schedule 5, paragraph 37(4).

f2

Section 43F was inserted by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 c.23 s 1 and amended by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 c. 24 Pt 2 s.18(1)(c). The persons who have been prescribed are those listed in the Schedule to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014 S.I. 2014/2418 amended by S.I. 2014/3294, S.I. 2015/1407, S.I. 2015/1981 and S.I. 2016/968.

f3

2014 c.2.