{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/9",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Permanent service call out of naval and marine reserves.",
  "text": "(1) Every officer and man serving in—\n(a) the Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Fleet Reserve, except a man of the special class of the Royal Fleet Reserve to whom section 11 above applies,\n(b) the Royal Marines Reserve,\nis liable, during the whole of that service, to be called out for permanent service\nwhenever an order under section 52(1)(b) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 is in force.\nThe reference in this subsection to the United Kingdom shall be construed as if that expression included the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.\n(1A) Sections 50(6), and 52(3) to (6) of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 shall apply to persons subject to this section as if they were persons to whom section 52 of that Act applied.\n(2) The provisions of subsection (1) above are in addition to, and not in substitution for, the provisions of any other enactment under which officers or men of the reserves mentioned in that subsection are liable to be called into permanent service.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(1) substituted (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/306, reg. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 16(1A) inserted (1.4.1997) after subsection (1) by S.I. 1997/306, reg. 4(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/9/section/16",
    "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."
}