(1) The Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 is amended -
(a) in section 1 by inserting the following definitions:
"'protected disclosure’ has the meaning given by the Protected Disclosures Act 2014;
'relevant wrongdoing’ has the meaning given by the Protected Disclosures Act 2014;";
(b) in section 6 by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph (b) of subsection (2):
"(ba) the employee having made a protected disclosure,";
(c) in section 6 by inserting the following subsection after subsection (2C):
"(2D) Sections 3 and 4 do not apply to a case falling within paragraph (ba) of subsection (2) and that paragraph applies to a person who would otherwise be excluded from this Act by any of paragraphs (a) to (c) and (e) to (k) of section 2(1).";
(d) in section 7 by inserting the following subsection after subsection (1):
"(1A) In relation to a case falling within section 6(2)(ba) the reference in subsection (1)(c)(i) to 104 weeks has effect as if it were a reference to 260 weeks.";
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