# Reserve Forces Act 1980, Paragraph 5

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) It shall be the duty of the governor of a civil prison in the United Kingdom or the superintendent or other person in charge of a civil prison in a colony to receive any person duly committed to that prison by a magistrates’ court as illegally absent from the reserve forces and to detain him until in accordance with the directions of the court he is delivered into military or air-force custody, as the case may be.
(2) Sub-paragraph (1) above shall apply to the person having charge of any police station or other place (not being a prison) provided for the confinement of persons in custody, whether in the United Kingdom or in a colony, as it applies to the governor or superintendent of a prison.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/9/schedule/5/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/schedule-5/paragraph-5
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