Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations—

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

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

  1. (a)

     a member of the House of Commons,

  2. (aa)

     F1a member of the Scottish Parliament,

  3. (b)

     a Minister of the Crown,

  4. (c)

     a Welsh Minister,

  5. (d)

     a Scottish Minister, F2or

  6. (e)

     F3...

  7. (f)

     an auditor appointed to audit smaller authorities;

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

• “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.