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.