(2) Applications for a reopening of the case are to be decided upon by the penal chamber of the district court. The reopening of the case in favor of the defendant will also take place if there are circumstances which point to the necessity of reexamining the case in the ordinary procedure. The stipulation of article 363 of the code of criminal procedure remains unaffected. If the application for the reopening of the case is justified, the trial will be ordered to take place before the competent ordinary court.
Article 17
Proceedings initiated on a punishable act within the jurisdiction of the Special Courts and pending at the date this decree becomes effective, will be continued according to the general rules if the trial has already started. Otherwise they will be transferred to the procedure regulated in this decree.
Article 18
(1) When the activities of the Special Courts end, the pending cases will be transferred to the ordinary procedure; the indictment filed according to the stipulations of this decree will become ineffective.
(2) If the trial has once started before the Special Court, it will be carried on according to the stipulations of this decree.
(3) The administration of punishment will be transferred to the authority for the administration of punishment in whose district the Special Court had its seat; the court decisions occurring in the course of the administration of punishment will be made by the penal chamber of the district court without hearings being held.
Article 19
This decree becomes effective on the second day after its promulgation.
Berlin, 21 March 1933