{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996/section-101",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996/section-101.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/14",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996",
  "path": "section/101",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "101",
  "heading": "Inducing a person to desert or absent himself.",
  "text": "(1) A person who, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, by any means—\n(a) procures or persuades, or attempts to procure or persuade, a member of a reserve force to commit an offence of desertion or absence without leave;\n(b) knowing that a member of a reserve force is about to commit such an offence, aids or assists him in so doing; or\n(c) knowing a member of a reserve force to be a deserter or an absentee without leave, procures or persuades or assists him to remain a deserter or absentee, or assists in his rescue from custody,\nis guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person who—\n(a) procures or persuades, or attempts to procure or persuade, a person liable to recall to commit an offence of desertion or absence without leave;\n(b) knowing that such a person is about to commit such an offence, aids or assists him in so doing; or\n(c) knowing a person liable to recall to be a deserter or absentee without leave, procures or persuades or assists him to remain a deserter or absentee, or assists in his rescue from custody,\nis guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) or (2) is liable on summary conviction—\n(a) in the case of an offence involving an offence of desertion or a deserter, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (or both); and\n(b) in the case of an offence of absence without leave or an absentee without leave, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/14/section/101",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:19.577483+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."
}