Clause 23

malingers, or feigns or produces disease or infirmity;

wilfully maims or injures himself or any other person subject to military law, whether at the instance of that person or not, with intent thereby to render himself or that person unfit for service, or causes himself to be maimed or injured by any person with intent thereby to render himself unfit for service;

is wilfully guilty of any misconduct, or wilfully disobeys whether in hospital or otherwise, any orders, by means of which misconduct or disobedience he produces or aggravates disease or infirmity, or delays its cure;

steals, dishonestly misappropriates or fraudulently misapplies, or receives, knowing it to have been stolen or dishonestly misappropriates any property belonging to a person subject to military law, or belonging to any regimental band, regimental or garrison mess, or regimental or garrison institution, or any public property; or

is guilty of any other offence of a fraudulent nature not before in this Act particularly specified, or of any other disgraceful conduct of a cruel, indecent or unnatural kind,shall be liable on conviction by court-martial to suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.