The Public Interest Disclosure (Compensation) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/1548
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure (Compensation) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 2nd July 1999.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations–

“the 1996 Act ” means the Employment Rights Act 1996.

Section 3 Compensation

Sections 117 to 127A 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 103A or 105(6A) 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) –

(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.