{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/14",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Parliamentary control of commitments.",
  "text": "(1) Parliament may authorise for each of the reserve forces a maximum number of officers and a maximum number of men who may at any time be—\n(a) in full-time service under full-time service commitments; or\n(a) in service under section 24 commitments; or\n(b) subject to additional duties commitments which are in force.\n(2) Accordingly, the numbers of officers and men of a reserve force who are in full-time service service under section 24 commitments, or subject to additional duties commitments which are in force, shall not exceed any numbers for the time being authorised by Parliament for that force.\n(3) Any members of a reserve force who are in full-time service service under section 24 commitments or who are subject to additional duties commitments shall not be reckoned in any numbers for the time being authorised by Parliament for any of the regular services.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 26(1)(a) substituted (1.5.2022 for specified purposes) by Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35), s. 24(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(2) (with Sch. 2 para. 10); S.I. 2022/471, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(2) substituted (1.5.2022 for specified purposes) by Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35), s. 24(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(3) (with Sch. 2 para. 10); S.I. 2022/471, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(3) substituted (1.5.2022 for specified purposes) by Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35), s. 24(1), Sch. 2 para. 3(4) (with Sch. 2 para. 10); S.I. 2022/471, reg. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/14/section/26",
    "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."
}