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Rh Schedule; and where any such enactment has been applied by or incorporated in any other Act the repeal shall extend so as to repeal that enactment as so applied or incorporated.

(9) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that a local statutory provision is inconsistent with or has become unnecessary in consequence of this Act he may, after consultation with any person appearing to him to be concerned with that provision, by order amend that provision so as to bring it into conformity with this Act or repeal it.

In this subsection “local statutory provision” means a provision of a local Act (including an Act confirming a provisional order) or a provision of a public general Act passed with respect only to a particular area or a particular undertaking or a provision of an instrument made under any such local or public general Act or of an instrument in the nature of a local enactment made under any other Act.

(10) An order made under this section shall be made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(11) The repeal by this section or an order made thereunder of any enactment relating to procedure or to the jurisdictional powers of any court shall not affect the operation of that enactment in relation to offences committed before the repeal takes effect or to proceedings for any such offence.

12.—(1) This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of three months beginning with the day on which it is passed.

(2) This Act may be cited as the Criminal Damage Act 1971.

(3) Except as provided by subsections (4) to (6) below, this Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.

(4) Section 11(4) of this Act extends to Scotland and Northern Ireland.

(5) Section 11(5) of this Act extends to so much of the river Esk, with its banks and tributary streams up to their source, as is situated in Scotland, but does not apply to the river Tweed within the meaning of the expression “the river” as defined by the Tweed Fisheries Amendment Act 1859 and any byelaw amending that definition.

(6) Part II of the Schedule to this Act and so much of section 11(8) above as relates thereto extend to Scotland; and section 11(2) of this Act, Part III of that Schedule and so much of section 11(8) as relates thereto extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland.