Section 5:
Pending cases.
(I) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in the principal Act as
amended by this Act,—
(a) cases pending immediately before the 30th day of June, 1966, before a special Judge in which
one or more persons subject to military, naval or air force law is or are charged with and tried for an
offence under the principal Act together with any other person or persons not so subject, and
(b) cases pending immediately before the said date before a special Judge in which one or more
persons subject to military, naval or air force law is or are alone charged with and tried for an offence
under the principal Act and charges have already been framed against such person or persons,
shall be tried and disposed of by the special Judge.
(2) Where in any case pending immediately before the 30th day of June, 1966, before a special Judge,
one or more persons subject to military, naval or air force law is or are alone charged with and tried for an
offence under the principal Act and charges have not been framed against such person or persons before
the said date, or where, on appeal or on revision against any sentence passed by a special Judge in any
case in which one or more persons subject was or were alone tried, the appellate court has directed that
such person or persons be retried and on such retrial charges have not been framed against such person or
persons before the said date, then, in either case, the special Judge shall follow the procedure laid down in
section 549 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), as if the special Judge were a
Magistrate.