(1)This Act may be cited as the Army and Air Force Act, 1961.
(2)Any reference in an Act passed before the passing of this Act to an enactment contained in the Army Act, 1955, or the Air Force Act, 1955, being an enactment amended by this Act, shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as referring to that enactment as so amended.
(3)Sections two to sixteen, eighteen to thirty-five and thirty-eight of this Act and the Schedules thereto, except so much of the Second Schedule as amends the Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act, 1951, shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and sixty-two.