Section 46: Communication with the enemy

(1) A person subject to service law under this Act who, with intent to assist the enemy, communicates with or gives intelligence to the enemy, 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, without lawful authority, communicates with or gives intelligence to the enemy 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.
(3)
In this section, "intelligence" means information which is or purports to be information as to any matter such that information about it would or might be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this subsection) as to a matter falling within any of the following paragraphs, being a matter such that information as to it would or might be useful as aforesaid, that is-
(a) the number, description, armament, equipment, disposition, movement or condition of any service of the Armed Forces or of any force co-operating with the Armed Forces or of a ship or an aircraft of the co-operating force;
(b) any operation or projected operation of the Armed Forces or any force cooperating with the Armed Forces or a ship or aircraft of the co-operating force;
(c) any code, cipher, call sign, password or countersign;
(d) any measure for the defence or fortification of any place on behalf of the Federal Government;
(e) the number, description or location of any prisoner of war;
(f) munitions of war.