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Armed Forces Discipline Act 1971

Offences - Offences involving treachery, cowardice, and looting

26: Spying in ships or establishments abroad

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"Spying for the enemy on a New Zealand ship or base overseas is against the law"

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You commit an offence if you spy for the enemy while on a naval ship outside New Zealand or in a defence area outside New Zealand. You can get imprisonment for life if you do this. If you are in one of these places and spy for the enemy, you are breaking the law.

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26Spying in ships or establishments abroad

  1. Every person commits an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for life, who, being on board a naval ship outside New Zealand or within a defence area outside New Zealand, spies for the enemy.

Notes
  • Section 26: amended, on , by section 5(4) of the Abolition of the Death Penalty Act 1989 (1989 No 119).
  • Section 26: amended, on , by section 12 of the Armed Forces Discipline Amendment Act 1985 (1985 No 199).