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effective date Sec. 199. (a) The effective date of this title (and the amendments made by this title) shall be the first day of the seventh calendar month which begins after the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the following provisions shall take effect as provided in the following paragraphs: (1) The provisions of chapter 25 (relating to attorneys) of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code, as contained in the revision made by part A of this title, shall take effect on April ], 1972. The provisions of chapter 21 (relating to attorney’s) of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code, in effect on the day Wore the effective date of this title, shall remain in effect until April 1, 1972; except that during the period beginning on the effective date of this title and ending April 1, 1972, section 11–2103 of such chapter is amended to read as follows: “§ 11–2103. Disbarment by District Court upon conviction of crime “When a member of the bar of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia is convicted of an offense involving moral turpitude, and a certified copy of the conviction is presented to the court, the court shall, pending final determination of an appeal from the conviction, suspend the member of the bar from practice. Upon reversal of the conviction the court may vacate or modify the suspension. If a final judgment of conviction is certified to the court, the name of the member of the bar so convicted shall be struck from the roll of the members of the bar and he shall thereafter cease to be a member. Upon the granting of a pardon to a member so convicted, the court may vacate or modify the order of disbarment.” (2) The provisions of chapter 21 (relating to the Register of Wills) of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code, as contained in the revision made by part A of this title, shall take effect immediately following the expiration of the thirty-month period beginning on the effective date of this title. The provisions of sections 11–504 through 11–506 of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code (relating to the Register of Wills), in effect on the day before the effective date of this title, shall remain in effect until the expiration of such thirty-month period. During such thirty-month period, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall fix the compensation of the Register of Wills without regard to chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 of the United States Code, but at a rate not exceeding the maximum rate authorized for GS–16 of the General Schedule. (3) The amendments made by the following sections of this title (relating to those matters over which the United States District Court for the District of Columbia retains temporary jurisdiction) shall take effect as follows: (A) Immediately following the expiration of the eighteen-month period beginning on the effective date of this title in the case of amendments made by sections 150(b). 150(c)(1), 150(c)(3), 150(c)(5)(A)(ii), 150(e), 150(f), 150(g)(3)(A), 150(g)(4), 150(g)(5), 150(g)(8), 150(h), and 150(i)(1). 84 Stat. 598 (B) Immediately following the expiration of the thirty-month period beginning on such date in the case of amendments made by sections 144(10), 145(b)(2), 145(k)(l), 145(1), 147(1), 148 (2), 149(2), 149(4), 149(6), and 150(a). The amendments made by section 150 to chapter 5 of title 21 of the District of Columbia Code (relating to hospitalization of the mentally ill) shall not apply with respect to any case pending before the United State District Court for the District of Columbia or the Commission on Mental Health at the expiration of such eighteen-month period. (4) Section 146(a)(1) (relating to the repeal of certain review provisions) shall not apply with respect to any appeal from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals over which the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has jurisdiction under section 11–301 of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code as in effect immediately before the date of enactment of this Act. (5) Section 11–722 of the District of Columbia Code, as contained in the revision made by part A of this title, shall take effect with respect to petitions filed after the effective date of this title for review of decisions or orders. (6) The amendments made by subpart 2 of part D of this title to section 8 of the Act of March 4, 1913, shall not apply with inspect to proceedings brought in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on or before the effective date of this title. (7) The amendments made by section 162 shall take effect with respect to petitions filed after the effective date of this title for review of decisions or orders. (8) Sections 195 and 196 shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) For purposes of this title and any amendment made by this title, the term “effective date of the District of Columbia Court Reorganization Act of 1970” means the first day of the seventh calendar month which begins after the date of the enactment of this Act.