2008 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
Signed July 24, 2008·George W. Bush·73 FR 43827
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Plain-language summary
Amends Parts II and IV of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which was originally prescribed by Executive Order 12473, with the specific changes detailed in an attached annex. The amendments take effect 30 days after the order's signing. They cannot be used to punish any act or omission that occurred before the effective date if it was not already punishable at that time. The amendments also do not invalidate any nonjudicial punishment proceedings, restraints, investigations, referrals of charges, trials that had already reached arraignment, or other actions begun before the effective date; such proceedings may continue as if the amendments had not been made. The order applies to military justice proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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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 of April 13, 1984, as amended, it is hereby ordered
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See: EO 12473, April 13, 1984
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13468 of July 24, 2008
2008 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 of April 13, 1984,
as amended, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Parts II 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. 2. These amendments shall take effect 30 days from
the date of this order.
(a) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to
make punishable any act done or omitted prior to the
effective date of this order 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 the effective date of this order, 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,
July 24, 2008.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed July 24, 2008. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.