Cap. 220 чл. 37Aiding the enemy.

(1) Any person subject to military law who with intent to assist the enemy -

(a) abandons or delivers up any place or post which it is his duty to defend, or induces any person to abandon or deliver up any place or post which it is that person’s duty to defend; or

(b) does any act calculated to imperil the success of operations of the force, or of any forces cooperating therewith or of any part of any of those forces; or

(c) having been made a prisoner of war serves with or aids the enemy in the prosecution of hostilities or of measures calculated to influence morale, or in any other manner whatsoever not authorised by international usage; or

(d) furnishes the enemy with arms or ammunition or with supplies of any description or with any other thing likely to assist him (whether similar to any of the things aforesaid or not); or

(e) harbours or protects an enemy not being a prisoner of war; or

(f) gives any false air signal or alters or interferes with any air signal or any apparatus for giving an air signal; or

(g) when ordered by his superior officer, or otherwise under orders, to carry out any warlike operations in the air fails to use his utmost exertions to carry such orders into effect; or

(h) causes the capture or destruction by the enemy of any of the force’s aircraft or the aircraft of any force cooperating with the force, shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to imprisonment for life or any other punishment provided by this Act.

(2) Any person subject to military law who knowingly and without lawful excuse does any of the acts specified in paragraphs

(a) to (e) of the last foregoing sub-article shall, where it is not proved that he acted with intent to assist the enemy, be liable on conviction by court-martial to imprisonment or other less punishment provided by this Act.

(3) Any person subject to military law who negligently causes the capture or destruction by the enemy of any of the force’s aircraft or the aircraft of any force cooperating with the force shall, on conviction by court-martial, be liable to imprisonment or any less punishment provided by this Act.