Reserve Forces Act 1980

18 Permanent service call out of Army Reserve.U.K.

(1)Any man of the Army Reserve (whether he entered the reserve on transfer or re-engagement or on being enlisted or on being deemed to be enlisted) shall during the whole of his service in that reserve be liable to be called out for permanent service on home defence service.

(2)Where a man of the Army Reserve is called out for permanent service—

(a)he may be appointed to any corps;

(b)subsection (3) of section 3 of the M1Army Act 1955 shall apply to him as it applies to a soldier of the regular forces.

(3)The number of men for the time being called out under this section shall not be reckoned in the numbers for the time being authorised by Parliament for the regular forces.

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