[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 29 (Monday, July 28, 2008)]
[Page 1023]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13468--2008 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, 
United States

July 24, 2008

    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.

    Sec. 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.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:02 a.m., July 25, 
2008]

Note: This Executive order and its attached annex were published in the 
Federal Register on July 28.