An Act to make provision with respect to the reserve forces of the Crown and persons liable to be recalled for permanent service; to amend the provisions of the Reserve Forces Act 1980 relating to the lieutenancies; to amend the law relating to the postponement of the discharge or transfer to the reserve of regular servicemen; and for connected purposes.
[22nd May 1996]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Act: power to amend conferred (4.6.2007) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 381, 383(2); S.I. 2007/1442, art. 2(2)
C2Act extended (with modifications) (Isle of Man) (1.11.2010) by The Reserve Forces Act 1996 (Isle of Man) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2470), art. 2, Sch. (as amended (1.8.2016) by The Reserve Forces Acts 1980 and 1996 (Isle of Man) (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/746), arts. 1, 3(3)(b))