Section 43FA — Prescribed persons: duty to report on disclosures of information

(1) [F1 [F2 The Secretary of State may make regulations requiring a person prescribed for the purposes of section 43F to produce an annual report on disclosures of information made to the person by workers.]]

(2) [F1 [F2 The regulations must set out the matters that are to be covered in a report, but must not require a report to provide detail that would enable either of the following to be identified—]]

(a) [F1 [F2 a worker who has made a disclosure;]]

(b) [F1 [F2 an employer or other person in respect of whom a disclosure has been made.]]

(3) [F1 [F2 The regulations must make provision about the publication of a report, and such provision may include (but is not limited to) any of the following requirements—]]

(a) [F1 [F2 to send the report to the Secretary of State for laying before Parliament;]]

(b) [F1 [F2 to include the report in another report or in information required to be published by the prescribed person;]]

(c) [F1 [F2 to publish the report on a website.]]

(4) [F1 [F2 The regulations may make provision about the time period within which a report must be produced and published.]]

(5) [F1 [F2 Regulations under subsections (2) to (4) may make different provision for different prescribed persons.]]

Amendment notes

1. F1 Pt. IVA (ss. 43A-43L) inserted (2.7.1998 for specified purposes and otherwise 2.7.1999) by 1998 c. 23, s. 1; S.I. 1999/1547, art. 2
2. F2 S. 43FA inserted (1.1.2016) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), ss. 148(2), 164(1); S.I. 2015/2029, reg. 2(a)