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[(a)] The law officer and members of a general or special court-martial may be challenged by the accused or the trial counsel for cause stated to the court.\nThe law officer or, if there is no law officer, the court shall determine the relevancy and validity of challenges for cause, and may not receive a challenge from more than one person at a time. Challenges by the trial counsel shall ordinarily be presented and decided before those by the accused are offered.\n(b) Each accused and the trial counsel is entitled to one peremptory challenge, but the law officer may not be challenged except for cause.\nHistory —June 23, 1969, No. 62, p. 117, § 1005, eff. 90 days after June 23, 1969.