The following provisions of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 (which provide that a person shall not be convicted of the offence concerned on the evidence of one witness only unless the witness is corroborated) are hereby repealed—
section 2(2) (procurement of woman by threats),
section 3(2) (procurement of woman by false pretences),
section 4(2) (administering drugs to obtain or facilitate intercourse),
section 22(2) (causing prostitution of women), and
section 23(2) (procuration of girl under twenty-one).
Nothing in this section applies in relation to—
any trial, or
any proceedings before a magistrates’ court as examining justices,
which began before the commencement of this section.