(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.";

and