{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/section-100",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/section-100.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/9",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980",
  "path": "section/100",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "100",
  "heading": "Postponement of discharge: Army Reserve and Royal Auxiliary Air Force.",
  "text": "(1) Where the time at which a man of the Army Reserve or the Royal Auxiliary Air Force would otherwise be entitled to be discharged occurs during a period of emergency, he may be required to prolong his service for such further term, not exceeding 12 months, as the Defence Council or an officer designated by them may order.\n(2) A man shall not during a period of emergency be entitled to be discharged under section 16(2)(a) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996.\n(3) In this section the expression “period of emergency” means—\n(a) in relation to a man of the Army Reserve , any period while an order under section 52(1)(a) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 is in force authorising members of the Regular Reserve to be called out for permanent service;\n(b) in relation to a man of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, any period—\n(i) while an order under section 52(1)(a) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996is in force authorising members of the Air Force Reserve to be called out for permanent service; or\n(ii) while the man in question is called out for home defence service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 100(2) substituted (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/306, reg. 24(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 100(3) substituted (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/306, reg. 24(3)(a)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (1.10.2014) by Defence Reform Act 2014 (c. 20), s. 44(3)(a)(4)50(1) (with s. 49(3)(5)); S.I. 2014/2370, art. 4(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/9/section/100",
    "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."
}