[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 43, Number 40 (Monday, October 8, 2007)]
[Page 1273]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13447--Further 2007 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-
Martial, United States

September 28, 2007

    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. The second subparagraph of paragraph 4, of Part I, of the 
Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, as amended by section 2 of 
Executive Order 13262 of April 11, 2002, is amended by striking the 
third sentence.
    Sec. 2. Parts II, 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. 3. These amendments shall take effect on October 1, 2007.
    (a) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to make 
punishable any act done or omitted prior to October 1, 2007, 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 October 1, 2007, 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,
 September 28, 2007.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:47 a.m., October 1, 
2007]

Note: This Executive order and its attached annex were published in the 
Federal Register on October 2. This item was not received in time for 
publication in the appropriate issue.