Under Jordan’s Military Criminal Code (1952), disobedience to a lawful order is a punishable offence. 

According to the Report on the Practice of Jordan, Article 17 of the Military Criminal Code of Jordan, which provides for the imposition of a penalty upon a subordinate who disobeys a lawful order, “means that if a subordinate knows that the order given by a superior would result in a breach of the law he must disobey it”.