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<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">The Secretary concerned may direct the Judge Advocate General to establish a branch office with any command. The branch office shall be under an Assistant Judge Advocate General who, with the consent of the Judge Advocate General, may establish a Court of Criminal Appeals with one or more panels. That Assistant Judge Advocate General and any Court of Criminal Appeals established by him may perform for that command under the general supervision of the Judge Advocate General, the respective duties which the Judge Advocate General and a Court of Criminal Appeals established by the Judge Advocate General would otherwise be required to perform as to all cases involving sentences not requiring approval by the President.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="id832769c6-ec38-11e5-a7c9-8f2c075e98f6">(<ref href="/us/act/1956-08-10/ch1041">Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041</ref>, <ref href="/us/stat/70A/61">70A Stat. 61</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/90/632">Pub. L. 90–632</ref>, § 2(29), <date date="1968-10-24">Oct. 24, 1968</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/82/1342">82 Stat. 1342</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/103/337/dA/tIX">Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title IX</ref>, § 924(c)(2), <date date="1994-10-05">Oct. 5, 1994</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/108/2831">108 Stat. 2831</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<p style=""><span style="font-variant:small-caps">Historical and Revision Notes</span></p></th>
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<th style="min-width: 38.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-right:1px solid black;"><p style=" text-align:center;"><i>Revised section</i></p></th><th style="width:84.0pt ; max-width:84.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"><p style=" text-align:center;"><i>Source (U.S. Code)</i></p></th><th style="width:84.0pt ; max-width:84.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-left:1px solid black;"><p style=" text-align:center;"><i>Source (Statutes at Large)</i></p></th></tr>
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<tr style="border-top:1px solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; padding-right:2pt;"><p style=" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;" class="leaders"><span>868</span></p></td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black; padding-right:2pt; padding-left: 2pt;"><p style=" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;">50:655.</p></td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black; padding-left: 2pt;"><p style=" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;"><a href="/us/act/1950-05-05/ch169">May 5, 1950, ch. 169</a>, § 1 (Art. 68), <a href="/us/stat/64/130">64 Stat. 130</a>.</p></td></tr>
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<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">The word “considers” is substituted for the word “deems”. The word “may” is substituted for the words “shall be empowered to”. The word “respective” is inserted for clarity.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="amendments" id="id832769c9-ec38-11e5-a7c9-8f2c075e98f6"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Amendments</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1994—<ref href="/us/pl/103/337">Pub. L. 103–337</ref> substituted “Court of Criminal Appeals” for “Court of Military Review” wherever appearing.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1968—<ref href="/us/pl/90/632">Pub. L. 90–632</ref> substituted the Secretary concerned for the President as the individual authorized to direct the Judge Advocate General to establish a branch office under an Assistant Judge Advocate General with any command and substituted “Court of Military Review” for “board of review” as the name of the body established by the Assistant Judge Advocate General in charge of the branch office.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="effectiveDateOfAmendment" id="id832769ca-ec38-11e5-a7c9-8f2c075e98f6"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Effective Date of 1968 Amendment</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Amendment by <ref href="/us/pl/90/632">Pub. L. 90–632</ref> effective first day of tenth month following October 1968, see <ref href="/us/pl/90/632/s4">section 4 of Pub. L. 90–632</ref>, set out as a note under <ref href="/us/usc/t10/s801">section 801 of this title</ref>.</p>
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