- ('b) conferring on the rule-making authority power to make rules of court regulating the procedure and practice of that court;
and subsection (3) of section twenty-one of the Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act, 1930 (which, in effect, enables that Parliament to amend or repeal that Act so far as it relates to matters within the powers of that Parliament) shall have effect accordingly.
(2) For the purposes of section six of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, this Act shall, so far as it relates to matters within the powers of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, be deemed to be an Act passed before the appointed day within the meaning of that section.
(3) An appeal shall lie to the House of Lords from any decision of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland in proceedings begun by a civil application for habeas corpus in like manner and subject to the like conditions (including requirements as to leave to appeal) as an appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeal in England in such proceedings.
(4) This Act shall, in its application to Northern Ireland, have effect subject to the modifications set out in the Second Schedule to this Act; but this subsection shall not affect the operation of section ten of this Act in relation to proceedings of the Courts-Martial Appeal Court sitting in Northern Ireland.
Minor and consequential amendments and repeals. 19.—(1) The enactments described in the Third Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in the second column of that Schedule, being minor amendments and amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act.
(2) The enactments described in the Fourth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(3) The repeals effected by subsection (2) of this section in section four of the Geneva Conventions Act, 1957, shall not affect the power of Her Majesty under subsection (2) of section eight of that Act to extend the provisions of that Act outside the United Kingdom.
Short title and extent. 20.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Administration of Justice Act, 1960.
(2) Except so far as it relates to appeals from the Courts-Martial Appeal Court and to proceedings preliminary or incidental to such appeals, this Act shall not extend to Scotland.
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