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Guangdong Maritime Search And Rescue Work

Original Language Title: 广东省海上搜寻救助工作规定

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Provisions for maritime search and rescue in the Province of Broad Orientale

(Summit No. 109 of 28 December 2012 of the Eleventh People's Government of the Great Britain and Northern Province to consider the adoption of Decree No. 182 of 28 March 2013 by the People's Government Order No. 182 of 28 March 2013, effective 1 May 2013)

Chapter I General

Article 1 provides for the regulation of maritime search and rescue, prompt and effective search for persons at risk at sea, security of life and marine environmental safety, and the development of this provision in the light of the provisions of the Law on Maritime Traffic Safety of the People's Republic of China, the participation of the military in the seizure of disaster relief regulations.

Article 2, paragraph 2, applies to activities related to the search and rescue of persons at risk in the area of maritime search and rescue in the province and to the control of marine pollution.

Article 3. Maritime search and rescue efforts uphold the principle of people-centred, governmental leadership, unity of command, territorial ownership, sub-ordination and social participation.

Article IV organizations seeking help at sea are guided by the approach of combining military forces with local forces in relation to the principles of proximity, rapid and effectiveness.

Article 5 Scope of maritime search and rescue is:

(i) The collision of sea vessels, facilities, triggers, dumping, fires, explosions, manipulation impairment of capacity, disappearances, loss of water, exclusive illness, injury to persons, and the threat of life of the ship or oil platforms, facilities;

(ii) Incidents such as airfares at sea or forced degradation.

Chapter II

Article 6. The Provincial Government and the State Military Zone have led to the search for rescue at sea throughout the province, which is established by the Department's Maritime Search and Rescue Centre, which is the commanding body responsible for organizing, coordinating, directing vessels and facilities in the area of maritime search and rescue responsibilities in the province, preventing the contamination of vessels and searching for rescue by sea personnel (hereinafter referred to as the “two-stop-flight”.

Article 7. The Government of the people of the coastal area shall establish or determine the sectors responsible for the search for rescue at sea and shall be responsible for organizing, coordinating, directing the operation of the “two-one-saving” in the area of maritime search and rescue.

In accordance with the need for the Government of the Coastal Regions to establish or identify sectors responsible for maritime search and rescue efforts, the Government is responsible for organizing, coordinating, commanding “two-one-size-fits-all” work in the area of maritime search and rescue responsibility in this district.

The provincial Maritime Search and Rescue Centre, in line with the above-mentioned paragraphs, assumes the responsibility for maritime searching and rescue operations. At the next level, the Maritime Search and Rescue Command is guided by the maritime searching and rescue command at the superior level or by the relevant departments.

Article 8. The area of maritime search and rescue at the sea above the sea level is defined by the Provincial Maritime Search and Rescue Centre, which is published after the approval of the Government of the Provincial People and is presented to the China Maritime Search and Rescue Centre.

The area of maritime search and rescue at the sea level of the coastal area is proposed by the Maritime Search and Rescue Command Agency at the local level above, which is published after the approval of the Government of the people at the local level and is presented to the Provincial Centre for Maritime Search and Rescue.

Article 9 Governments involved in the search for rescue at sea shall perform the following duties:

(i) The public security sector organizes this sector to engage in maritime emergency operations; the maintenance of maritime search and rescue on-site policing and land transportation controls; provision of fire-fighting equipment and technical support; provision of accessible and accessible services for cross-border maritime emergency operations personnel; provision of entry facilitation services for entry and assistance to those who need assistance, such as heavy injury, re-equillity, and facilitation of the repatriation of persons responsible for rescued and after-service treatment of death personnel.

(ii) The civil affairs sector works in collaboration with temporary accommodation for rescue workers, basic living assistance and the survivors of disaster-affected persons;

(iii) The financial sector, in accordance with the principle of a sub-prime burden, is responsible for providing financial security for maritime search and rescue.

(iv) The transport sector is responsible for guiding, coordinating and overseeing the transport of priority materials and emergency passenger shipments for maritime searching for rescue operations.

(v) The health administration should work in conjunction with the establishment of a medical intermodal mechanism to coordinate medical treatment for persons suffering from sea-based illnesses, tele-health counselling.

(vi) The outside sector is responsible for policy guidance and coordination on matters related to maritime search and rescue operations.

(vii) The marine and fisheries sector is responsible for organizing fish crafts and coordinating fishing boats in maritime search and rescue operations; coordinating the sound processing of fishing fishermen who are rescued; and for identifying and providing detailed information on fishing vessels.

(viii) The safe production monitoring management cooperates with the disposal of dangerous sea accidents and participates in the relevant work of maritime search and rescue.

Article 10 The Central Canton Unit involved in the search for rescue at sea shall perform the following functions:

(i) Maritime management organizations, coordinating the participation of vessels, facilities in maritime search and rescue operations, responsible for issuing warnings on maritime search and rescue operations, and for identifying and providing detailed information on vessels.

(ii) The Ministry of Transport's South Sea Relief Bureau and the South Sea First Resort Team, coordinated by the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre in the Province, are specifically implementing maritime search and rescue missions.

(iii) The Ministry of Transport, Broad State, is responsible for the implementation of sea-based emergency response such as the seizure of fires, the clearance of oil spills.

(iv) Civil aviation management is responsible for coordinating the safety and security of navigation search and rescue aircraft; coordinating the handling of fuel from offshore search and rescue aircraft; and halting.

(v) Communications management is responsible for organizing, coordinating telecommunications operators to provide emergency communications security, mobile communications positioning information services and technical support for maritime search and rescue.

(vi) The meteorological services are responsible for providing daily weather forecasts of the sea in my province, harsh weather information, such as tropical cyclones, typhoons, and relevant meteorological information required for maritime searching for rescue operations.

(vii) The National Maritime Bureau South Sea Division is responsible for the provision of relevant marine environmental forecasts and ocean disaster warning information; for the provision of surface-breaking forecasts; and for the organization of this sector to engage in maritime search and rescue operations.

Article 11. Ships, aircraft from units such as military forces, the VAF and customs are an important force for the search for rescue at sea in my province and should be actively involved in the search for rescue at sea.

The military force has been deployed to engage in maritime search and rescue operations, as well as joint search and rescue training, exercises, which are carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the military.

Article 12 units such as ports, airlines shall participate in maritime search and rescue operations, as requested by the Maritime Search Command, and subject to the command of the maritime search and rescue command.

Chapter III Maritime Search and Rescue Action

Relevant sectors, such as oceans, meteorology, should collect and study information that may result in sea-risk tropical cyclones, typhoons, tsunamis and so forth, issue early warning information in accordance with the relevant national provisions and inform maritime search and rescue authorities.

The Maritime Search and Rescue Command should be organized in a timely manner, at different early warning levels, to coordinate the relevant units in the search for rescue at sea.

Relevant port units and vessels, facilities and personnel operating at sea should be brought to the attention of receiving early warning information, taking appropriate preventive measures at different early warning levels.

Article 14.

Other units, vessels, facilities, aircraft or personnel were informed of information on maritime risk situations, and reports should be promptly reported to the near-Earth searching and rescue command agencies.

In accordance with article 15, the relevant units and individuals shall report to the Maritime Search and Rescue Command Body on the situation and requests for relief, and in the event of the subsistence of vessels, facilities, civil aviation or personnel, he shall be rescued, and he shall be able to report promptly to the Maritime Search and Rescue Command.

Article 16-related units and individuals should strengthen the maintenance and management of the police equipment and prevent misstatement of the risk; it was found that, after the misstatement, immediate measures should be taken to address the impact.

Any unit or individual may not be charged or deliberately exaggerated by sea.

Once the Maritime Search and Rescue Command has received reports from the maritime environment, records should be made available to verify the situation, to determine the level of risk, to organize searches in a timely manner, and to report to the Government of the current people and to the maritime search and rescue authorities at the grass-roots level.

In the case of maritime hazards not in the search and rescue area, reports should be made promptly to the superior maritime search and rescue command body and to the maritime search and rescue command authorities in neighbouring areas.

In emergencies, a written report may be submitted in advance of a telephone report.

Article 18 Ships, facilities, civil aviation or personnel at sea should take all effective measures to save and avoid pollution of the sea; cause or cause pollution of the maritime area should be initiated immediately, take measures to control and eliminate pollution and report to the relevant maritime administrations.

The search for rescue should be carried out in a timely manner without grave endangering the security of the vessel, the civil aviation apparatus, which is near the sea's ground, has received information on the risk of being exposed by the sea or has received instructions from the maritime searching agency.

Article 20 should be implemented immediately following instructions from the Maritime Search and Rescue Command. It is justified that no immediate implementation should be carried out by telephone reports and in a timely manner by sea searching for the written report of the command.

Article 21, on-site command of search and rescue operations was appointed by the Maritime Search Command. Prior to undesignated on-site command, the first rescue unit (both ship or aircraft) arriving on the ground should automatically assume responsibility for field command.

All vessels, facilities or aircraft participating in maritime search and rescue operations should be subject to uniform command.

Online commands should report on the ground to the Maritime Search and Rescue Command, as well as on the progress of search and rescue, and implement the directives of the Maritime Search and Rescue Command.

Article 22 participates in vessels, facilities or aircraft that are searched at sea without the authorization of the Maritime Search and Rescue Command, which is not under the command of the vessel, facilities or aircraft, and shall not be left to search and rescue operations at sea.

The Maritime Search and Rescue Command, which is responsible for command, may decide to suspend or restore maritime search and rescue operations, in accordance with objective conditions such as meteorology, sea conditions, technological conditions.

Article 24 is one of the following cases and ends maritime search and rescue operations:

(i) All regions where a risky person may be found;

(ii) The possibility of survival of the person at the time of the temperature, water temperature, wind and wave of conditions has not been possible;

(iii) The response to the maritime situation has been successful or the emergency has ceased.

The end of maritime search and rescue is determined by the Maritime Search and Rescue Command and, if necessary, by the Government of the people at this level. The Maritime Search and Rescue Command should inform units and individuals participating in maritime search assistance in a timely manner.

Article 25 participates in units, vessels, facilities and aircraft searching at sea, and shall be kept in the relevant work records during the search for rescue operations.

Article 26 Maritime search and rescue information is jointly issued by the competent maritime search and rescue command body, and other units and individuals are not allowed to release or distribut information to the community.

Article 27 of the Maritime Search and Rescue Command should establish and improve the post-arch and rescue assessment system and assess the Group of Experts on Post-Occidental Equivalsitions (Country).

The provincial Maritime Search and Rescue Centre is responsible for organizing expert assessments of major and significant maritime emergency operations and reporting to the China Maritime Search and Rescue Centre.

The Coastal City, the Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Command is responsible for organizing expert assessments of the larger and general maritime emergency response and reporting to the Shanghai Search and Rescue Command.

Chapter IV Maritime search security

Article 28 Governments of more than the coastal zone should strengthen their leadership in the search for rescue at sea, establish a system for sound searching for rescue at sea, emergency coordination mechanisms, improve emergency pre-referral and implementation approaches and strengthen maritime search and rescue capacity-building.

Article 29 Governments of more than communes with maritime search and rescue missions should include requirements for maritime search and rescue in the current financial budget.

Article 33 The management of communications should guarantee the unhindered access of maritime search and response channels and provide temporary emergency communications lines and communications equipment in a timely manner, in accordance with emergency needs.

Article 31 of the Maritime Search and Rescue Command allows for the use of units and personal property for maritime search and rescue operations. The confiscated property should be returned in a timely manner after its use has been completed. The property is sought and is compensated in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and the province.

Article 32 addresses the well-being of persons rescued:

(i) The persons rescued in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region and the Taiwan area are dealt with in coordination with the Office of Portal Affairs and the Office of Taiwan Affairs.

(ii) A person who has been rescued is a foreign nationality and is to be processed by a company, the actual user unit or its foreign broker. Where necessary, it is coordinated by the outside sector.

(iii) Those who are unable to determine their true status are treated in coordination with the public security sector.

Article 33 recognizes units and individuals that have made significant achievements in the search for rescue at sea, either by the Maritime Search Command or by their superior authorities.

Any units and individuals entitled to lodge complaints to the Maritime Search and Rescue Command, report on violations committed by the Maritime Search and Rescue Service, and the Maritime Search Command shall make the complaint available to society.

Chapter V Maritime search and rescue cooperation

The Maritime Search and Rescue Centre in the Province should strengthen its communication and cooperation with neighbouring provinces and ports of Macao and continuously improve the mechanism for maritime search and rescue cooperation; organize the power to participate in maritime-risk emergency response operations in the cross-provincial areas, as required by the cooperation mechanism or the China Maritime Search and Rescue Centre.

Article XVI, the municipal, district-level maritime search and rescue authorities should strengthen interregional communication and cooperation, establish mechanisms for improving maritime search and rescue cooperation, and organize forces to participate in disaster response operations at sea, in accordance with the cooperation mechanisms or at the request of the parent searching authority.

Article 337: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Maritime Search and Rescue Agency of the Macao Special Administrative Region, which dispatches aircraft to the area of maritime search and rescue in the province, shall apply to the Provincial Centre for Maritime Search and Rescue and provide information on matters related to the approval by the Provincial Maritime Search and Rescue Centre for the uniform reporting of the wide-state military zone.

In cooperation with the search and rescue sector in the Taiwan region, the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre of the Province should report on the situation to the China Maritime Search and Rescue Centre, organized by the China Maritime Search and Rescue Centre, coordinate the search for rescue operations or conduct maritime search and rescue operations with the authorization of the China Maritime Search and Rescue Centre.

Chapter VI Legal responsibility

In violation of article 16 of the present provision, it was found that a misleading post of police was not active in eliminating the impact, was false or deliberately exclusive of a maritime risk, resulting in a cost of maritime search and rescue, which was borne by the parties and fined by the maritime administration for a citizen of up to $50 million, could impose fines on legal persons or other organizations for more than 5,000 yen in 20000; and that, in violation of the security regulations, the public security authorities were punished by law.

Article 40 units and individuals responsible for searching and rescue at sea are not in compliance with this provision and are subject to statutory duties by their superior authorities or by an inspection authority;

(i) After receiving a maritime search for rescue orders, there is no reason to participate or to participate in the search for rescue at sea without delay;

(ii) The search for rescue at sea is not subject to the organization, coordination, command and direction of the maritime search and rescue authority or on-site command;

(iii) Received from sea search and rescue operations.

Article 40, in violation of article 26 of the present article, has caused the adverse impact of the unauthorized issuance of information to the community or the dissemination of the search for rescue at sea, which is responsible for the removal of the impact by the maritime searching and rescue command agency; and penalties are imposed by the public security authorities in accordance with the provisions of the law.

In article 42, staff members of the unit or department concerned misuse of their functions, play negligence, provocative fraud at sea and are lawfully disposed of by law; constitute crimes and hold criminal responsibility under the law.

Chapter VII

The search for rescue in the river waters can be implemented in accordance with this provision.

Article 44 The announcements made by the Government of the People's Republic of China, the China People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in the area of maritime search and rescue in the Province of the Wide Orientale province, issued on 5 December 1995 (No. [1995]99) and 22 December 1997 by the People's Government, the China People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in the area of military service (No. 100) to amend the provisions of the Maritime Search in the Province of Broad Orientale Province (Landton's Office [1997]).