{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-43C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-43C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/43C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "43C",
  "heading": "Disclosure to employer or other responsible person.",
  "text": "(1) A qualifying disclosure is made in accordance with this section if the worker makes the disclosure ...—\n(a) to his employer, or\n(b) where the worker reasonably believes that the relevant failure relates solely or mainly to—\n(i) the conduct of a person other than his employer, or\n(ii) any other matter for which a person other than his employer has legal responsibility,\nto that other person.\n(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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/43C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:34:50.937818+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."
}