{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/9",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Differing service liabilities of those called out.",
  "text": "(1) Where a person—\n(a) is in service in pursuance of a call-out notice under section 58 of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 specifying an enactment mentioned in section 26(2) above;\n(b) if he were not in service he would be liable to be called into service by a call-out notice under section 58 of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 or, as the case may be, by such a call-out notice specifying a different enactment so mentioned,\nthe Secretary of State may direct that, on the date of the direction or a later date specified in the direction, that person shall be deemed to be called into service by a call-out notice under section 58 of the Reserve Forces Act 1996 specifying such of those enactments applicable to him as is specified in the direction.\n(2) Where a person is deemed in pursuance of subsection (1) above to be called into service by virtue of an enactment specified in a direction under that subsection, his service under any other enactment by virtue of which he was previously serving shall cease.\n(3) The power to give a direction under this section includes power—\n(a) to make provision for persons of such descriptions as are specified in the direction or in respect of an individual; and\n(b) to make different provision for different circumstances.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 28(1)(a) substituted (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/306, art. 12(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/306, art. 12(1)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/9/section/28",
    "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."
}