Statutory Instruments
2017 No. 880
Terms And Conditions Of Employment
The Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) Order 2017
Made
5th September 2017
Laid before Parliament
7th September 2017
Coming into force
1st October 2017
The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 43F of the Employment Rights Act 1996( 1 ):
Citation and Commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) Order 2017 and comes into force on 1st October 2017.
Amendments to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014
2. In the Schedule to the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) Order 2014( 2 )—
(a) omit the entries relating to Audit Scotland, the Care Council for Wales and the Wales Audit Office;
(b) in the entry relating to the Secretary of State for Education in the second column for paragraph (h) substitute—
| “ (h) an institution within the further education sector (as defined in section 91(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 ( 3 ) ) ” ; |
(c) in the entry relating to the Bank of England at paragraph (b) omit “inter-bank”;
(d) in the entry relating to the Welsh Ministers in the second column at the end insert the following paragraph—
| “ Matters relating to regulated services as defined in section 2 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 ( 4 ) ” ; |
(e) at the appropriate place insert—
| “ Social Care Wales ( 5 ) | Matters relating to the registration of social care workers under the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 ” . |
Margot James
Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
5th September 2017
1996 c.18 . Section 43F was inserted by section 1 of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (c.23) . Section 43F(1)(a) was amended by section 18(1)(c) of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c.24) .
S.I. 2014/2418 , amended by S.I. 2014/3294 , 2015/1407 , 2015/1682 , 2015/1981 , 2016/225 , 2016/968 , 2016/992 , 2017/516 and 2017/692 .
1992 c.13 . Sections 91(3)(c) and 91(3A) were inserted by Schedule 8, paragraphs 1 and 13(1), (2) and (3) of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c.22) .
Social Care Wales was established by section 67 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016.