Article 305 — Disclosure or Alteration of Instructions.

(1) Any member of the Defence Forces, while on active service, but without committing treason: (a) gives countersigns, passwords or secret instructions to any person not entitled to receive them; or (b) knowingly gives to another entitled to receive them countersigns, passwords or secret instructions other than those which he has himself received; or (c) fails to give a message which he is required to transfer, is punishable with simple imprisonment, or with rigorous imprisonment not exceeding ten years. (2) Where the crime is committed in time of emergency, general mobilization or war, the punishment shall be: (a) simple imprisonment not exceeding five years, in the case of negligence; and (b) rigorous imprisonment not exceeding twenty years, in the case of intentional infringement.