2013 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
Signed May 15, 2013·Barack Obama·78 FR 29559
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Amends Parts III and IV of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which was originally prescribed by Executive Order 12473, adopting changes described in an attached annex. The amendments take effect on the date of the order, but they cannot be used to punish any act that was not already punishable when it occurred, and they do not affect or invalidate nonjudicial punishment proceedings, restraints, investigations, referrals of charges, trials already arraigned, or other actions started before the order's effective date. Such pending matters continue to be handled under the rules that applied before this order, 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, as amended, it is hereby ordered
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Executive Order 13643 of May 15, 2013
2013 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. Parts 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. 2. These amendments shall take effect as of the
date of this order, subject to the following:
(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,
May 15, 2013.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed May 15, 2013. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.