Further 2007 Amendments to the Manual for Courts- Martial, United States
Signed September 28, 2007·George W. Bush·72 FR 56179
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Amends the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which was originally prescribed by Executive Order 12473. It strikes a sentence from Part I as previously amended by Executive Order 13262, and revises Parts II, III, and IV as detailed in an attached annex. The changes take effect October 1, 2007, and apply to military justice proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The order specifies that no act or omission occurring before that date can be punished if it was not already punishable, and that ongoing nonjudicial punishment proceedings, investigations, restraints, referrals of charges, trials, or other actions begun before October 1, 2007, remain valid and may continue as if the amendments had not been made.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including chapter 47 of title 10, United States Code (Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. 801-946), and in order to prescribe amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, prescribed by Executive Order 12473, as amended, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
See: EO 12473, April 13, 1984; EO 13262, April 11, 2002
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13447 of September 28, 2007
Further 2007 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-
Martial, United States
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including chapter 47 of title 10, United
States Code (Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10
U.S.C. 801-946), and in order to prescribe amendments
to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States,
prescribed by Executive Order 12473, as amended, it is
hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. The second subparagraph of paragraph 4, of
Part I, of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United
States, as amended by section 2 of Executive Order
13262 of April 11, 2002, is amended by striking the
third sentence.
Sec. 2. Parts II, III, and IV of the Manual for Courts-
Martial, United States, are amended as described in the
Annex attached and made a part of this order.
Sec. 3. These amendments shall take effect on October
1, 2007.
(a) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to
make punishable any act done or omitted prior to
October 1, 2007, that was not punishable when done or
omitted.
(b) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to
invalidate any nonjudicial punishment proceedings,
restraint, investigation, referral of charges, trial in
which arraignment occurred, or other action begun prior
to October 1, 2007, and any such nonjudicial
punishment, restraint, investigation, referral of
charges, trial, or other action may proceed in the same
manner and with the same effect as if these amendments
had not been prescribed.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 28, 2007.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed September 28, 2007. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.