"wine and victuals"), and provided for forfeiture to the king of any prohibited merchandise. To ensure enforcement, the act provided that one-third of the forfeited merchandise "shall be delivered to the Party that sued the Offender, as the King's Gift. And in such Case he that will sue [for a thing so forfeited,] shall be received." More qui tam provisions were enacted over the next two centuries, rewarding informers. For example, the 1328 Statute of Northampton penalized (by forfeiture and fine) the holding of fairs by lords and merchants for longer than the authorized length, and provided that "every man that will sue for our Lord the King, shall be received, and [also have] the Fourth Part of that which shall be lost at his Suit." Two Statutes of Labourers, enacted in 1349 and 1350, set wage and price controls and provided for informers to seek forfeiture from the violator, or from mayors or bailiffs who failed to enforce the regulations. A large number of other statutes, mostly affecting commercial regulations, also included qui tam provisions. Some qui tam statutes were targeted at ensuring the integrity of officials. For example: During the reign of Henry VII, qui tam enforcement was reformed to avoid abuses, such as collusive suits between defendants and informers meant to avoid punishment. A 1487 statute, among other reforms, made it a crime (punishable by two years' imprisonment) to collude with a qui tam informer. The practice fell into disrepute in England in the 19th century by which time it was principally used to enforce laws related to Christian Sunday observance. It was brought to an effective end by the Common Informers Act 1951 but, in 2007, there were proposals to introduce legal provision on the U.S. model back to the United Kingdom. United States "Whistleblower" can mean any person who reveals misconduct by his or her employer or another business or entity. The misconduct may be in the form of breaking the law, committing fraud, or corruption. In the United States, that type of fraud may be a violation of the False Claims Act, or similar state and local laws, and a whistleblower who exposes fraud on the government may bring a qui tam lawsuit on behalf of the government and potentially receive a share of the recovery recovered by the government as a reward for bringing that action. Whistleblower protections existed in the United States