The Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2022
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2022/1249 |
| Year | 2022 |
2022 No. 1249
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
The Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2022
Made 28th November 2022
Laid before Parliament 30th November 2022
Coming into force 4th January 2023
The Secretary of State makes this 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) (No. 2) Order 2022 and comes into force on 4th January 2023.
Amendments to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014
2. In the Schedule to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 20142, in the entry relating to the Office of Communications, in the second column—
(a) in paragraph (c) at the end omit “and”;
(b) in paragraph (d) for “markets.” substitute “markets;”;
(c) after paragraph (d) insert—
“
(e)
(e) postal services regulation; and
(f)
(f) the regulation of video-sharing platform services under Part 4B of the Communications Act 20033.
Paul Scully
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
28th November 2022
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Schedule to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014 (the “2014 Order”).
The Employment Rights Act 1996 (the “1996 Act”) provides protection for workers who suffer a detriment or are dismissed as a result of whistleblowing 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 matters in respect of which they are prescribed for the purposes of section 43F.
This Order amends the Schedule to the 2014 Order to prescribe additional matters in respect of which the Office of Communications (Ofcom) is a prescribed person. Following the amendments made by this Order, qualifying disclosures made to Ofcom which the worker reasonably believes are about matters relating to Ofcom’s regulatory regime for postal services...
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