{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/9",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Duration of Regular Reserve permanent service.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to this section and section 13(3) above, a man of the Regular Reserve when called out for permanent service shall be liable to serve until Her Majesty no longer requires his services.\n(2) No man called out for permanent service shall be required to serve for a period exceeding in the whole the remainder unexpired of his term of service in the Regular Reserve .\n(3) Section 19A below shall apply to men of the Regular Reserve called out for permanent service.\n(4) Section 13 of the Army Act 1955 so far as it relates to discharge shall apply to men of the Regular Reserve called out for permanent service as it applies to soldiers of the regular forces.\n(5) Nothing in subsection (2) above shall prejudice the operation of subsections (3) and (4) above subsection (3) .",
  "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)(a)(4)50(1) (with s. 49(3)(5)); S.I. 2014/2370, art. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 19(3)-(5) substituted for s. 19(3) (1.1.1999) by S.I. 1998/3086, reg. 11, Sch. para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 19(4) repealed (28.3.2009 for specified purposes, 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 14 para. 4(a), Sch. 17; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(5) substituted (28.3.2009 for specified purposes, 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), s. 383(2), Sch. 14 para. 4(b); S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/9/section/19",
    "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."
}