3.  Subject to the transitional provisions and savings made by article 5 below, the following provisions of the 1997 Act shall come into force on 1st January 1998, namely—

(a) sections 35 and 37;

(b) in section 39, subsections (1) and (3) to (6) and, so far as relating to offences the sentences for which are fixed by law or fall to be imposed under section 2(2) or 3(2), subsection (2);

(c) sections 40 and 43; and

(d) paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 4.