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Title 10 — Armed Forces

Part II · Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice

§ 828. Art. 28. Detail or employment of reporters and interpreters

Statutory text

Under such regulations as the Secretary concerned may prescribe, the convening authority of a court-martial, military commission, or court of inquiry shall detail or employ qualified court reporters, who shall record the proceedings of and testimony taken before that court or commission. Under like regulations the convening authority of a court-martial, military commission, or court of inquiry may detail or employ interpreters who shall interpret for the court or commission. This section does not apply to a military commission established under chapter 47A of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 47 · 70A Stat. 47

    Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 828

    Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 47

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 47

  2. Military Commissions Act of 2006

    Pub. L. 109–366 § 4(a)(2) · 120 Stat. 2600

    Inserted · 10 U.S.C. § 828

    Pub. L. 109–366 inserted last sentence

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 109–366 inserted last sentence.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) Exclusion of applicability to chapter 47a commissions.— Sections 821, 828, 848, 850(a), 904, and 906 (articles 21, 28, 48, 50(a), 104, and 106) are amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: “This section does not apply to a military commission established under chapter 47A of this title.”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

historicalAndRevision
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
82850:592.May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 28), 64 Stat. 117.

The words “Secretary concerned” are substituted for the words “Secretary of the Department”. The words, “detail or employ” are substituted for the word “appoint”, since the filling of the position involved is not appointment to an office in the constitutional sense.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–366 inserted last sentence.

Credits

1956–2006 · 2 acts
  1. 1956Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 47
  2. 2006Pub. L. 109–366, § 4(a)(2), , 120 Stat. 2631.
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(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 47; Pub. L. 109–366, § 4(a)(2), , 120 Stat. 2631.)

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