Part V
Commencement, etc.
Past offences. 16. This Act shall not have effect in relation to any offence, where an indictment for that offence has been signed or, in Scotland, has been served before the date of the commencement of this Act, or, as the case may be, a court-martial for the trial of that offence has been ordered or convened before that date; but (subject to that) this Act shall have effect in relation to offences committed wholly or partly before that date as it applies in relation to offences committed after that date.
Short title, repeal and extent. 17.—(1). This Act may be cited as the Homicide Act, 1957.
(2) The enactments specified in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(3) This Act, except as regards courts-martial, shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
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