6Provision as to previous Acts

(1)

This Act shall apply to all criminal proceedings, notwithstanding any enactment in force at the commencement of this Act, except that nothing in this Act shall affect the M1Evidence Act, 1877.

(2)

But this Act shall not apply to proceedings in courts martial unless so applied—

(a)

as to courts martial under the M2Naval Discipline Act, by general orders made in pursuance of section sixty-five of that Act; and

(b)

as to courts martial under the M3Army Act by rules made in pursuance of section seventy of that Act.