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

This Act shall come into force on the day appointed under section 106(5) of the M1Criminal Justice Act 1967 for the coming into force of section 98 of that Act.

So much of Schedule 5 to this Act as amends the M2Geneva Conventions Act 1957 shall extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland and the repeal by this Act of section 2(2) of the M3Administration of Justice Act 1960 shall extend to Northern Ireland; but except as aforesaid this Act shll not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.