{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996/section-125",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996/section-125.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/14",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996",
  "path": "section/125",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "125",
  "heading": "Absence for voting.",
  "text": "No member of a reserve force shall be liable, when not in permanent service, to any penalty or punishment on account of his absence from duty in the United Kingdom for voting at—\n(a) any election of a Member of Parliament a Member of the Scottish Parliament , a Member of the National Assembly for Wales, or a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly, or\n(b) any local election,\nor going to or returning from such voting.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(a) inserted (11.3.1999) by S.I. 1999/787, art. 97, Sch. 8 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(a) inserted (1.10.2001 subject to art. 3 of the commencing S.I.) by 2001 c. 19, s. 34, Sch. 6 Pt. 3 para. 13; S.I. 2001/3234, arts. 2, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 125(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Parliamentary Elections Etc. (Repeal, Revocation, Amendment and Saving Provisions) (United Kingdom and Gibraltar) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1310), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 2 (as amended by S.I. 2019/1389, regs. 1, 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/14/section/125",
    "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."
}