1. These Rules shall come into operation on the 20th day of July 2009.

2. Subject to section 3 and Schedule 1 of the Defence (Amendment) Act 2007, nothing in these Rules shall affect the validity of any step taken or any other thing done in proceedings under the Courts-Martial Appeals Act 1983 initiated before the commencement of these Rules. Any such proceedings shall, subject to the section and Schedule aforesaid and, save where the Courts-Martial Appeal Court in those proceedings otherwise orders, be continued and completed as if these Rules had not been made.

3. These Rules shall be construed together with the Rules of the Superior Courts 1986 to 2009 and may be cited as the Rules of the Superior Courts (Courts-Martial Appeal Court) 2009.

4. The Rules of the Superior Courts are hereby amended:

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(iii) by the substitution in Order 125 for the definition of “Superior Courts” of the following definition:

““Superior Courts” means the Supreme Court, the High Court, the Court of Criminal Appeal, the Courts-Martial Appeal Court and the Central Criminal Court”,