2016 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
Signed May 20, 2016·Barack Obama·81 FR 33331
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Amends Parts II, III, and IV of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which was originally prescribed by Executive Order 12473, incorporating changes described in an attached annex. The amendments apply to military justice procedures under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and take effect as of the date of the order. The order specifies that the changes cannot make punishable any act that was not punishable when it occurred, and that they do not invalidate nonjudicial punishment proceedings, restraints, investigations, referrals of charges, trials, or other actions already begun before the effective date; such pending matters may continue as if the amendments had not been made. The order applies to military commanders, judge advocates, and others involved in administering 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 13730 of May 20, 2016
2016 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. Part II, Part III, and Part 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 20, 2016.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed May 20, 2016. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.