{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescribed-persons-reports-on-disclosures-of-information-regulations-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescribed-persons-reports-on-disclosures-of-information-regulations-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/507",
  "legislation_title": "The Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prescribed-persons-reports-on-disclosures-of-information-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“larger authority” means a person listed in Schedule 2 to the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 which is not a smaller authority;\n“relevant prescribed person” means a person prescribed for the purposes of section 43F of the Employment Rights Act 1996 other than—\n(a)a member of the House of Commons,\n(aa) a member of the Scottish Parliament,\n(b)a Minister of the Crown,\n(c)a Welsh Minister,\n(d)a Scottish Minister, or\n(e)...\n(f)an auditor appointed to audit smaller authorities;\n“smaller authority” has the meaning given by section 6 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014;\n“workers’ disclosures” means disclosures of information made to a relevant prescribed person other than those which the relevant prescribed person has reason to believe—\n(a)were not made by a worker; or\n(b)were made by a worker on behalf of the worker’s employer.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (15.12.2022) by The Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1324), regs. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 inserted (15.12.2022) by The Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1324), regs. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (15.12.2022) by virtue of The Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1324), regs. 1, 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.4.2017, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "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."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2014 c.2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/507/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:39.440029+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."
}