Any person subject to this Act who commits any of the following offences, that is to say,—
(a)forces a safeguard, or forces or uses criminal force to a sentry; or
(b)breaks into any house or other place in search of plunder; or
(c)being a sentry sleeps upon his post, or is intoxicated; or
(d)without orders from his superior officer leaves his guard, piquet, patrol or post; or
(e)intentionally or through neglect occasions a false alarm in camp or quarters; or spreads reports calculated to create unnecessary alarm or despondency; or
(f)makes known the parole, watchword or countersign to any person not entitled to receive it; or knowingly gives a parole, watchword or countersign different from what he received; or
(g)without due authority alters or interferes with any air signal;
shall, on conviction by court-martial,
if he commits any such offence when on active service, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned; and
if he commits any such offence when not on active service, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.