Section 45: Aiding the enemy

(1) A person subject to service law under this Act who, with intent to assist the enemy-
(a) abandons or delivers up any place, post or thing which it is his duty to defend, or induces any other person to abandon or deliver up any place, post or thing which it is that person's duty to defend; or
(b) does or fails to do any act calculated to imperil the success of operation of any service of the Armed Forces or of any forces co-operating with the Armed Forces 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
(e) harbours or protects an enemy not being a prisoner of war,
is guilty of an offence under this section and liable, on conviction by a court-martial, to suffer death or any other punishment provided by this Act.
(2) A person subject to service law under this Act who, knowingly and without lawful excuse-
(a) abandons or delivers up any place, post or thing which it is his duty to defend or induces any other person to deliver up any place, post or thing which it is that person's duty to defend; or
(b) does or fails to do any act calculated to imperil the success of operations of any service of the Armed Forces or of any force co-operating with the Armed Forces or of any part thereof or 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 the measures calculated to influence morale, or in any manner whatsoever not authorised by international usage; or
(d) furnishes the enemy with arms or ammunition or with supplies of any description; or
(e) habours or protects an enemy not being a prisoner of war,
is guilty of an offence under this section and liable, on conviction by a court-martial, to suffer death or any less punishment provided by this Act.
(3)
For the purpose of this section, "thing" means and includes a vehicle, ship, gun, tank, vessel, craft, boat, an aircraft, a radar and an ammunition.