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The coming into force of any of the following provisions of this Act, that is to say, sections 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7, . . . F2 on the commencement of this Act . . . F2, shall not affect any trial on indictment where the indictment has been presented, or any summary trial which has started, before the coming into force of that provision, and any such trial shall be conducted as if the provision had not come into force.

Where before the coming into force of section 4(1) above, . . . F2 on the commencement of this Act . . . F2, a person has been committed for trial for a scheduled offence and the indictment has not been presented, then, on the coming into force of that subsection, he F3shall, if he was committed to a county court or to a court of assize other than the Belfast City Commission, be treated as having been committed to that Commission.

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