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Rh (5) Subject to the provisions of this Act, all enactments and rules of law relating to trials by jury, juries and jurors shall continue in force and, in criminal cases, continue to apply to proceedings in the Crown Court as they applied to proceedings before a court of oyer and terminer or gaol delivery.

(6) In subsections (1) and (2) above references to the new provisions are references to those provisions of this Act which re-enact the provisions of the Courts Act 1971 about trial by jury, juries and jurors and the provisions of section 25 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972; and the reference in subsection (2) above to the former enactments and rules of law which the new provisions replace (and to the former law which those provisions replace) is a reference to the enactments and rules of law replaced by the said provisions of the Courts Act 1971 and the provisions of the said section 25.

22.—(1) The Coroners Act 1887 shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in Schedule 2 to this Act (being amendments consequential on certain of the repeals made by this Act).

(2) Any enactment, instrument or document referring to any enactment repealed by this Act shall, so far as may be necessary for preserving its effect, be construed as referring, or as including a reference, to the corresponding provision of this Act.

(3) Any instrument or document made, served or given and any other thing done under any enactment repealed by this Act shall have effect as if made, served, given or done under the corresponding provision of this Act.

(4) The enactments mentioned in Schedule 3 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(5) Nothing in subsections (2) and (3) above shall be construed as affecting the operation of section 38 of the Interpretation Act 1889 (effect of repeals).

23.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Juries Act 1974.

(2) In this Act—
 * “court”, except where the context otherwise requires, means the Crown Court, the High Court, or a county court;
 * “the appropriate officer” means such officer as may be designated for the purpose in question in accordance with arrangements made by the Lord Chancellor.

(3) This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.

(4) This Act extends to England and Wales only.