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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/section-101",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/section-101.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/9",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980",
  "path": "section/101",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "101",
  "heading": "Postponement of discharge: Army Reserve .",
  "text": "(1) A man of the Army Reserve who is a person to whom section 11 above applies shall not be entitled to be discharged under section 16(2)(a) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 during any period while an order is in force under section 54 of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 authorising the call-out of members of the Army Reserve .\n(2) Subsections (1) and (2) of section 100 above shall have effect, in relation to a man who enlists or re-engages in the Army Reserve on or after 1st April 1967, as if the period of emergency within the meaning of that section included any period while he 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. 101(1) substituted (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/306, reg. 25(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/9/section/101",
    "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."
}