A Military Police-officer who
(a) begins, excites, causes or joins in any mutiny or sedition or, being present at any mutiny or sedition, does not use his utmost endeavors to suppress it, or, knowing or having reason to believe in the existence of any mutiny, or of any intention to mutiny, does not without delay give information thereof to his commanding or other superior officer; or
(b) uses, or attempts to use, criminal force to or commits an assault on, his superior officer, whether on or off duty; or
(c) shamefully abandons or delivers up any garrison, fortress, post or guard which is committed to his charge or which it is his duty to defend; or
(d) directly or indirectly holds correspondence with, or assists or relieves, any person in arms against the State, or omits to discover immediately to his commanding or other superior officer any such correspondence coming to his knowledge: or
who, while on active service,-
(e) disobeys the lawful command of his superior officer; or
(f) deserts the service; or
(g) being a sentry, sleeps upon his post, or quits it without being regularly relieved or without leave; or
(h) without authority leaves his commanding officer, or his post or party, to go in search of plunder; or
(i) quits his guard, picquet, party or patrol without being regularly relieved or without leave; or
(j) uses criminal force to, or commits an assault on, any person bringing provisions or other necessaries to camp or quarters, or forces safeguard, or without authority breaks into any house or any other place for plunder, or plunders, destroys or damages any property of any kind; or
(k) intentionally causes or spreads a false alarm in action, camp, garrison or quarters,
shall be punished with transportation for life or for a term of not less than seven years, or with imprisonment for a term much may extend to fourteen years, or with fine which may extend to three months' pay, or with fine to that extent in addition to such sentence of transportation or imprisonment, as the case may be, as may be passed upon him under this section.