12. Section 9 of the Act of 1981 is amended—

(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):

“(1) This Act applies, with the necessary modifications, to the trial by court-martial of an applicable offence.”,

(b) in subsection (2)—

(i) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a):

“(a) for the references to a judge in section 3, 7 or 8 there shall be substituted references to a military judge, and”,

(ii) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (aa):

“(aa) in section 8(8) for the reference to the Director of Public Prosecutions there shall be substituted a reference to the Director.”,

and

(iii) by the deletion of paragraph (b),

and

(c) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2):

“(3) In this section, ‘court-martial’, ‘Director’ (other than in the reference to the Director of Public Prosecutions) and ‘military judge’ have the same meanings as they have in the Defence Act 1954.”.