1999 No. 1548
The Public Interest Disclosure (Compensation) Regulations 1999
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 127B of the Employment Rights Act 19961, hereby makes the following Regulations:–
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure (Compensation) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 2nd July 1999.
Interpretation2
In these Regulations–
“the 1996 Act” means the Employment Rights Act 1996.
Compensation3
Sections 117 to 127A2 of the 1996 Act shall apply to compensation awarded, or a compensatory award made, to a person in a case where he is regarded as unfairly dismissed by virtue of section 103A3 or 105(6A)4 of the 1996 Act, with the following modifications–
a
as if, after section 124(1), there was inserted the following subsection–
1A
Subsection (1) shall not apply to compensation awarded, or a compensatory award made, to a person in a case where he is regarded as unfairly dismissed by virtue of section 103A or 105(6A).
b
as if, in section 117(6)5–
i
after paragraph (b), the word “and” was omitted; and
ii
after paragraph (c), there was inserted
and
d
a dismissal where the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason)–
i
in a redundancy case, for selecting the employee for dismissal, or
ii
otherwise, for the dismissal,
is that specified in section 103A.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)