2023 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States

2023-08-02Executive Order 14103
Signed by: Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Presidential Documents

Executive Order 14103 of July 28, 2023

2023 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 additions
and 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, Part IV, and Part V of
the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, are
amended as described in Annex 1, which is attached to
and made a part of this order. The amendments in Annex
1 shall take effect on the date of this order, subject
to the following:

(a) Nothing in Annex 1 shall be construed to make
punishable any act committed or omitted prior to the
date of this order that was not punishable when
committed or omitted.
(b) Nothing in Annex 1 shall be construed to
invalidate any nonjudicial punishment proceeding,
restraint, preliminary hearing, referral of charges,
trial in which arraignment occurred, or other action
begun prior to the date of this order, and any such
nonjudicial punishment proceeding, restraint,
preliminary hearing, referral of charges, trial in
which arraignment occurred, or other action may proceed
in the same manner and with the same effect as if the
Annex 1 amendments had not been prescribed.

Sec. 2. Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, and
Appendix 12A of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United
States, are amended as described in Annex 2, which is
attached to and made a part of this order. The
amendments in Annex 2 shall apply in accordance with
the effective date established by section 539C of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
(NDAA FY 2022), Public Law 117-81, subject to the
following:

(a) Nothing in Annex 2 shall be construed to make
punishable any act committed or omitted prior to the
effective date established by section 539C of the NDAA
FY 2022.
(b) Nothing in Annex 2 shall be construed to
invalidate any nonjudicial punishment proceeding,
restraint, preliminary hearing, referral of charges,
trial in which arraignment occurred, or other action
begun prior to the effective date established by
section 539C of the NDAA FY 2022, and any such
nonjudicial punishment proceeding, restraint,
preliminary hearing, referral of charges, trial in
which arraignment occurred, or other action may proceed
in the same manner and with the same effect as if the
Annex 2 amendments had not been prescribed.

Sec. 3. Appendix 12B, Appendix 12C, and Appendix 12D
are added to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United
States, and Part II of the Manual is amended as
described in Annex 3, which is attached to and made a
part of this order. The additions and amendments in
Annex 3 shall take effect on December 27, 2023, and
shall apply in accordance with section 539E(f) of the
NDAA FY 2022 (10 U.S.C. 853 note), subject to the
following:

(a) Nothing in Annex 3 shall be construed to make
punishable any act committed or omitted prior to the
effective date established by section 539E(f) of the
NDAA FY 2022.

(b) Nothing in Annex 3 shall be construed to
invalidate any nonjudicial punishment proceeding,
restraint, preliminary hearing, referral of charges,
trial in which arraignment occurred, or other action
begun prior to the effective date established by
section 539E(f) of the NDAA FY 2022, and any such
nonjudicial punishment proceeding, restraint,
preliminary hearing, referral of charges, trial in
which arraignment occurred, or other action may proceed
in the same manner and with the same effect as if the
Annex 3 amendments had not been prescribed.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 28, 2023.

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