paragraph (2) applies to the employee and the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason) for the dismissal is a reason specified in paragraph (3), or

paragraph (5) applies to the employee and the reason (or, if more than one, the principal reason) for the dismissal is a reason specified in paragraph (6).

a member of a special negotiating body;

a member of a representative body;

an information and consultation representative;

an employee member in a supervisory or administrative organ;

a candidate in an election in which any person elected will, on being elected, be such a member or a representative.

that the employee performed, or proposed to perform, any functions or activities as such a member, representative or candidate (but see paragraph (4));

that the employee, or a person acting on behalf of the employee, made or proposed to make a request to exercise an entitlement conferred on the employee by regulation 26 or 27.

the reason (or principal reason) for the dismissal is that, in the performance or purported performance of the employee's functions or activities, the employee has disclosed any information or document in breach of the duty in regulation 24, and

the case is not one where the employee reasonably believed the disclosure to be a “protected disclosure” within the meaning given by section 43A of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

took, or proposed to take, any proceedings before an employment tribunal to enforce any right conferred on the employee by these Regulations;

exercised, or proposed to exercise, any entitlement to apply or complain to the CAC or the Appeal Tribunal conferred by these Regulations or exercised, or proposed to exercise, the right to appeal in connection with any rights conferred by these Regulations;

acted with a view to securing that a special negotiating body, a representative body or an information and consultation procedure did or did not come into existence;

indicated that the employee did or did not support the coming into existence of a special negotiating body, a representative body or an information and consultation procedure;

stood as a candidate in an election in which any person elected would, on being elected, be a member of a special negotiating body or a representative body, an employee member on a supervisory or administrative organ, or an information and consultation representative;

influenced, or sought to influence, by lawful means the way in which votes were to be cast by other employees in a ballot arranged under these Regulations;

voted in such a ballot;

expressed doubts, whether to a ballot supervisor or otherwise, as to whether such a ballot had been properly conducted;

proposed to do, failed to do, or proposed to decline to do, any of the things mentioned in sub-paragraphs (d) to (h).

whether or not the employee has the right, or

whether or not the right has been infringed,