Section 55: Short title, commencement and extent.

Criminal Appeal Act 1968 · 1968 c.19

Part III: Miscellaneous and General

55(1)

This Act may be cited as the Criminal Appeal Act 1968.

55(2)

This Act shall come into force on the day appointed under section 106(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 for the coming into force of section 98 of that Act.

55(3)

So much of Schedule 5 to this Act as amends the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 shall extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland and the repeal by this Act of section 2(2) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 shall extend to Northern Ireland; but except as aforesaid this Act shll not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.

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