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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/schedule-8/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/9",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a man—\n(a) is a member of the Army Reserve or the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, and\n(b) was enlisted before the date of any order or regulation under the Auxiliary Forces Act 1953,\nnothing in any order or regulation made under any provision of that Act or made or having effect under a corresponding provision of this Act shall render him liable without his consent to be appointed, transferred or attached to any military or air force body to which he could not without his consent have been appointed, transferred or attached if that order or regulation had not been made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.10.2014) by Defence Reform Act 2014 (c. 20), s. 44(3)(b)(4)50(1) (with s. 49(3)(5)); S.I. 2014/2370, art. 4(a)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/9/schedule/8/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:16:50.169605+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}