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 Executive Orders EO 13447 Sec. 6. This order shall be effective September 30, 2007. GEORGE W. BUSH The White House, September 28, 2007. Executive Order 13447 of September 28, 2007 Further 2007 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, l0 U.S.C. 80a-946), and in order to prescribe amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, prescribed by Executive Order a2473, as amended, it is hereby or- dered 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 a3262 of April al, 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 % 2007. (a) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to make punishable any act done or omitted prior to October a, 2007, that was not punishable when done or omitted. (b) Nothing in these amendments shall be construed to invalidate any non- judicial punishment proceedings, restraint, investigation, referral of charges, trial in which arraignment occurred, or other action begun prior to October \177, 2007, and any such nonjudicial punishment, restraint, inves- tigation, 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 pre- scribed. GEORGE W. BUSH The White House, September 28, 2007. 243

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