(1) Anyone who receives authentic information of the project or carrying out of a crime punishable in accordance with sections 8 to 12 at a time when the carrying out or the success can still be averted and omits to give the authorities or person threatened due warning will be punished with the death penalty, and/or in less serious cases with hard labor for life or for a certain period of time or imprisonment.
(2) If the person upon whom it is incumbent to give warning, and who omits to do so is a relative of the perpetrator punishment can be waived if he has earnestly tried to restrain his relative from committing the act or to prevent its success.
Section 15
(1) Anyone who has failed to comply with the surrender obligation as stipulated in the decree of the Commander in Chief of the Army of 12 September 1939 (Ordinance Gazette for the Occupied Territories in Poland, p. 8) or is otherwise caught in unauthorized possession of a firearm, a hand grenade, or explosives will be punished with the death penalty; the same applies for the unauthorized possession of ammunition or other implement of war if by their nature or quantity public security is endangered.
(2) A sentence of hard labor or imprisonment will be passed if the perpetrator subsequently makes the delivery voluntarily, before the case has been brought before the court or an inquiry against him has been instituted. In this case punishment may even be waived.
(3) The person who has authentic cognizance of illegal possession of weapons, ammunition, explosives, or implements of war and fails to inform the official authorities accordingly without delay will receive capital punishment, in less severe cases hard labor for life or for a certain period or a term of imprisonment.
Section 16
(1) The provisions of sections 8 to 15 are not applicable to—
1. German nationals, ethnic Germans and nationals of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
2. Nationals of states which are not participating in the present war against Germany.