An Act to amend the National Defence Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts (S.C. 2019, c. 15)

Transitional Provisions

Marginal note:Proceedings

66 The National Defence Act, as it read immediately before the coming into force of section 25 of this Act, applies

• (a) in respect of proceedings against a person who is alleged to have committed a service offence that were commenced by the laying of a charge before the coming into force of that section 25; and

• (b) in respect of all matters related to those proceedings.

Marginal note:Section 203.1 of National Defence Act

67 Paragraphs 203.1(2)(c) and (i) of the National Defence Act, as enacted, respectively, by paragraphs 63(21)(d) and (e), apply only in respect of sentences imposed in respect of conduct engaged in on or after the day on which those paragraphs 63(21)(d) and (e) produce their effects.

Coming into Force

Marginal note:Order in council

• 68 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the provisions of this Act, other than sections 63 to 67, come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

• Marginal note:Order in council

  (2) Sections 2 and 29 of this Act come into force on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.