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This Act applies to any protected disclosure made after the date on which this section comes into operation, irrespective of whether or not the impropriety concerned has occurred before or after the said date. No employee may be subjected to any occupational detriment by his or her employer on account, or partly on account, of having made a protected disclosure . Any employee who has made a protected disclosure and who reasonably believes that he or she may be adversely affected on account of having made that disclosure , must, at his or her request and if reasonably possible or practicable , be transferred from the post or position occupied by him or her at the time of the disclosure to another post or position in the same division or another division of his or her employer or, where the person making the disclosure is employed by an organ of state , to another organ of state . Any employee who, in accordance with a procedure authorised by his or her employer , makes a disclosure to a person other than his or her employer is deemed, for the purposes of this Act , to be making the disclosure to his or her employer . Any regulation made in terms of this section must be submitted to Parliament before publication thereof in the Gazette .