Reserve Forces Act 1996

59 Acceptance into service under call-out order. U.K.

(1) A person served with a call-out notice who—

(a) presents himself for service to an authorised officer at the time and place specified in the notice under section 58(3)(c);

(b) presents himself for service to an authorised officer at any other time or place; or

(c) is brought before an authorised officer after the time so specified,

may be accepted into service by that officer.

(2) Where such a person is accepted into service, he shall be informed by the authorised officer in the prescribed manner that he has been accepted into service by virtue of subsection (1).

(3) If an authorised officer decides that such a person should not be accepted into service, he shall inform that person in the prescribed manner that he is not to be accepted into service in pursuance of the call-out notice concerned.

(4) Any liability of such a person arising from a failure to comply with a call-out notice is not affected by his acceptance into service or by a decision not to accept him into service.

(5) Where a call-out order is in force, any person who is liable to be called out under the order who—

(a) has not been served with a call-out notice; and

(b) presents himself for service to an authorised officer,

may be accepted into service under that call-out order by that officer.

(6) Where a person is accepted into service under a call-out order by virtue of subsection (5)—

(a) the authorised officer shall inform him in the prescribed manner that he has been accepted into service under that order by virtue of that subsection; and

(b) he shall be deemed to have been called out under this Part for service under that order.