{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-interest-disclosure-act-1998/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-interest-disclosure-act-1998/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/23",
  "legislation_title": "Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-interest-disclosure-act-1998",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Unfair dismissal.",
  "text": "After section 103 of the 1996 Act there is inserted—\n“ Protected disclosure.\n103A An employee who is dismissed shall be regarded for the purposes of this Part as unfairly dismissed if the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason) for the dismissal is that the employee made a protected disclosure.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/23/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:46.994839+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."
}