(1)For subsection (3) of section 2 of the [1973 c. 53.] Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973 (in this Act referred to as " the principal Act") there shall be substituted the following subsection:—
“(3)Where separate counts of an indictment allege a scheduled offence and an offence which is not a scheduled offence, the trial on indictment shall, without prejudice to section 5 of the Indictments Act (Northern Ireland) 1945 (orders for amendment of indictment, separate trial and postponement of trial), be conducted as if all the offences alleged in the indictment were scheduled offences.”
(2)In sections 4(2) and 6(1) of the principal Act after the words " scheduled offence" there shall be inserted the words " or two or more offences which are or include scheduled offences. "