Reserve Forces Act 1980

11 Call out for warlike operations

(1) A person to whom this section applies shall be liable to be called out for permanent service in any part of the world when warlike operations are in preparation or progress, subject to sections 12 and 13(1) below.

(2) The persons to whom this section applies are—

(a) any member of the Army Reserve or the Air Force Reserve who became such a member on or after 1st April 1967 otherwise than in consequence of his having enlisted in the regular army or the regular air force before that day ;

(b) any member of the Territorial Army who became such a member on or after 1st April 1967 by enlisting or re-engaging in the Territorial Army or by becoming an officer of the Territorial Army ;

(c) any member of the special class of the Royal Fleet Reserve who became such a member on or after 1st April 1967 otherwise than in consequence of his having, before that day, been entered for non-continuous service in the naval service of Her Majesty or enlisted to serve in the royal marine forces ; and

(d) any other member of a reserve or class mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (c) above who has elected in pursuance of subsections (4) and (5) below to be a person to whom this section applies and has been notified in the prescribed manner that he has been accepted as such a person.

(3) In subsection (2) above

(a) the references in paragraphs (a) and (c) to becoming a member of a reserve or class include references to remaining a member of it by virtue of a new engagement or other agreement; and

(b) a notification in pursuance of paragraph (d) may be made to take effect on a day determined by the notification.

(4) A member of a reserve or class mentioned in subsection (2) who is not a person to whom this section applies may (subject to section 13(1) below) elect irrevocably in the prescribed manner to be such a person.

(5) A person who immediately before 1st April 1967—

(a) was a man of the regular army or the regular air force, or

(b) was serving by reason of his having been entered or enlisted as mentioned in paragraph (c) of subsection (2),

may (subject to section 13(1)) elect irrevocably in the prescribed manner that, on his becoming a member of such a reserve or class, he shall be a person to whom this section applies.

(6) In relation to the calling out of persons by virtue of this section—

(a) any such calling out shall be reported to Parliament forthwith;

(b) the number of persons for the time being called out shall not be reckoned in the numbers for the time being authorised by Parliament for the regular army and the regular air force.