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Executive Order: 2008 Amendments to the Manual for Courts Martial, United
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For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary July 24, 2008

Executive Order: 2008 Amendments to the Manual for Courts Martial, United
States

ÿÿWhite House News


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.

Section 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.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 24, 2008.

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