(1)The enactments specified in Schedule 5 shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified, being amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.
(2)Until its repeal by this Act takes effect, section 9 of the [1970 c. 31.] Administration of Justice Act 1970 (constitution of the criminal division of the Court of Appeal) shall have effect as if the provisions which appear in this Act as subsections (3), (4), and (5) of section 55 were, as subsections (2), (2A) and (2B) respectively, substituted for subsection (2) of the said section 9 (with " court " in those subsections meaning a court of that division).
(3)This Act shall have effect subject to the transitional provisions and savings contained in Schedule 6.
(4)The enactments mentioned in Schedule 7 (which include certain obsolete or unnecessary provisions) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(5)The following instruments are hereby revoked—
(a)the [S.I. 1968/1976.] District Probate Registries Order 1968 ;
(b)the [S.I. 1975/338.] Superannuation (Assistant Chancery Registrars) Order 1975; and
(c)any Order in Council amending subsection (1)(b) of section 1 of the [1968 c. 5.] Administration of Justice Act 1968 which was made under that section before the commencement of this Act.