2022 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
Signed January 26, 2022·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·87 FR 4763
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Amends Parts II and IV of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which implements the Uniform Code of Military Justice, based on changes set out in an attached annex. The amendments take effect on the date of the order, but they cannot make punishable any act that occurred before the order and was not already punishable at the time. They also do not invalidate nonjudicial punishment proceedings, restraints, investigations, charge referrals, trials that had already reached arraignment, or other military justice actions begun before the order; such pending matters may continue as though the amendments had not been made. The order updates the standing manual originally prescribed by Executive Order 12473, applying to military personnel subject to court-martial proceedings.
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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. 801-946a), 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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Disposition
See: EO 12473, April 13, 1984
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The order, in full
Executive Order 14062 of January 26, 2022
2022 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. 801-946a), 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 to 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
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 proceeding,
restraint, investigation, referral of charges, trial in
which arraignment occurred, or other action begun prior
to the 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,
January 26, 2022.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed January 26, 2022. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.