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[CITE: 10USC813]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 47--UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--APPREHENSION AND RESTRAINT
 
Sec. 813. Art. 13. Punishment prohibited before trial

    No person, while being held for trial, may be subjected to 
punishment or penalty other than arrest or confinement upon the charges 
pending against him, nor shall the arrest or confinement imposed upon 
him be any more rigorous than the circumstances require to insure his 
presence, but he may be subjected to minor punishment during that period 
for infractions of discipline.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 41; Pub. L. 97-81, Sec. 3, Nov. 20, 
1981, 95 Stat. 1087.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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813...................................  50:567.                              Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  1 (Art.
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3), 64 Stat. 112.
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    The words ``the provisions of'' are omitted as surplusage. The word 
``results'' is changed to the singular. The word ``may'' is substituted 
for the word ``shall''.


                               Amendments

    1981--Pub. L. 97-81 substituted ``No person, while being held for 
trial, may be subjected'' for ``Subject to section 857 of this title 
(article 57), no person, while being held for trial or the result of 
trial, may be subjected''.


                    Effective Date of 1981 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 97-81 to take effect at the end of the 60-day 
period beginning on Nov. 20, 1981, and to apply to each person held as 
the result of a court-martial sentence announced on or after that date, 
see section 7(a) and (b)(2) of Pub. L. 97-81, set out as an Effective 
Date note under section 706 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 937 of this title.
