Section 43C Disclosure to employer or other responsible person.F1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

A qualifying disclosure is made in accordance with this section if the worker makes the disclosure F2 ...—

(a)

to his employer, or

(b)

where the worker reasonably believes that the relevant failure relates solely or mainly to—

(i)

the conduct of a person other than his employer, or

(ii)

any other matter for which a person other than his employer has legal responsibility,

to that other person.

(2)

A worker who, in accordance with a procedure whose use by him is authorised by his employer, makes a qualifying disclosure to a person other than his employer, is to be treated for the purposes of this Part as making the qualifying disclosure to his employer.

Annotations

Textual amendments

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
F2: Words in s. 43C(1) omitted (25.6.2013) by virtue of Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), ss. 18(1)(a), 103(2) (with s. 24(6))

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Part 2B heading and s. 27C inserted (E.W.S.) (31.7.2023 for specified purposes, 1.10.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 (c. 13), ss. 1, 14(2); S.I. 2023/876, reg. 3(a); S.I. 2024/829, reg. 3(a)