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 drunk; or
(d)without orders from his superior officer leaves his guard, picket, patrol or post,
shall, on conviction by a Security Guard Court,—
(i)if he commits any such offence when on active duty, 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
(ii)if he commits any such offence when not on active duty, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years of such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.