With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed before this Act (or, for the provisions set forth in Article 1, items (ii) and (iv) of the Supplementary Provisions, those provisions; hereinafter the same applies in this Article) comes into effect and to acts committed after this Act comes into effect in the cases where the provisions then in force continue to govern pursuant to the provisions of these Supplementary Provisions, the provisions then in force continue to govern.