The Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) Order 2017
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2017 No. 880
Terms And Conditions Of Employment
The Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) Order 2017
Made 5th September 2017
Laid before Parliament 7th September 2017
Coming into force 1st October 2017
The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 43F of the Employment Rights Act 19961:
Citation and Commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) Order 2017 and comes into force on 1st October 2017.
Amendments to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014
2. In the Schedule to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 20142—
(a) omit the entries relating to Audit Scotland, the Care Council for Wales and the Wales Audit Office;
(b) in the entry relating to the Secretary of State for Education in the second column for paragraph (h) substitute—
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(h) an institution within the further education sector (as defined in section 91(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 19923)”; |
(c) in the entry relating to the Bank of England at paragraph (b) omit “inter-bank”;
(d) in the entry relating to the Welsh Ministers in the second column at the end insert the following paragraph—
“ |
Matters relating to regulated services as defined in section 2 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 20164”; |
(e) at the appropriate place insert—
“Social Care Wales5 |
Matters relating to the registration of social care workers under the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016”. |
Margot James
Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
5th September 2017
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
The Employment Rights Act 1996 (the “1996 Act”) provides protection for workers who suffer a detriment or are dismissed as a result of blowing the whistle by making a qualifying disclosure within the meaning of section 43B of the 1996 Act in accordance with any of sections 43C to 43H of that Act. Section 43F of the 1996 Act provides that a qualifying disclosure will be protected if it is made to a prescribed person and relates to matters in respect of which that person is prescribed. The Schedule to the 2014 Order lists the prescribed persons and the...
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