(c) without due authority sends flag of truce to the enemy ; or
(d) negligently causes the capture or destruction by the enemy of any aircraft belonging to the
Government ; or
(e) when ordered by his superior officer, or otherwise under orders to carry out any warlike
operations in the air, negligently or through other default fails to use his utmost exertions
to carry such orders into effect ;
Shall, on conviction by court‑martial, be liable to suffer long imprisonment.
36. Offences punishable more severely on active service than at other times. 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 counter signs different from what he received
; or
(g) without due authority alters or interferes with any air signal ;
shall, on conviction by court‑martial,
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