(Adopted by Decree No. [2010] of 13 April 2010] by the Government of the Northern Province of the Sudan at its 57th ordinary meeting, held on 12 April 2010

Chapter I General

Article 1 provides for the timely and effective conduct of maritime search and rescue to secure the safety of maritime personnel and the protection of the marine environment, in accordance with the relevant laws, regulations and regulations, such as the Law on Maritime Traffic Safety of the People's Republic of China, the People's Republic of China's Insolvency Act.

Article 2. This provision applies to maritime search and rescue assistance and related activities in the area of maritime search and rescue in the province.

Article III provides for maritime search and rescue (hereinafter referred to as maritime search and rescue), which refers to activities of vessels, facilities, aircraft and their personnel in the event of a risk at sea, as well as other activities that cause or may result in the loss of life and injury by sea personnel, as well as in the event of a sudden incident involving maritime pollution.

Article IV. Maritime search and rescue persists on the basis of people, with units and individuals with maritime search and rescue capacity to participate in search and rescue.

Persons at sea are entitled to receive compensation.

Article V. Maritime search and rescue of government leadership, unity of command, divisional management, territorial ownership, rapid efficiency principles, adherence to national professional aid forces, social aid forces, and rescue and rescue.

Article 6. The Government of the people at the district level should strengthen its leadership in the search and rescue process at sea, establish a system of emergency relief, improve the response mechanisms for maritime emergencies and enhance the search and rescue capacity of the sea.

Chapter II

Article 7. The Government of the Provincial People's Government has established the Provincial Maritime Search and Rescue Centre, which is attended by the relevant units, and the Office of the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre in the Province is located in the National Maritime Authority.

The Government of the communes of the coastal zone has established the Centre for Maritime Search and Rescue, which is attended by the relevant units, and the National Maritime Authority in the municipality of the Centre for Maritime Search and Rescue.

In the area of maritime search and rescue in coastal zones, a delineation programme was proposed by the Provincial Maritime Search and Rescue Centre, which was published after the approval of the Government of the Provincial People and is presented to the National Centre for Maritime Search and Rescue.

Article 8 Key responsibilities of the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre include:

(i) Implement laws, regulations, regulations and policies relating to maritime search and rescue, and accept operational guidance from the Centre for Maritime Search and Rescue;

(ii) The development of a maritime search and rescue response case;

(iii) Development of a budget for maritime search and rescue;

(iv) Designation of maritime search and rescue forces;

(v) Organization, coordination, direction and rescue operations at sea;

(vi) Organization of search and rescue exercises, performance and related training;

(vii) Cooperation with other search and rescue centres;

(viii) Coordination, guidance on the strengthening of maritime search and rescue monitoring of early warning infrastructure construction and the creation of information-sharing mechanisms for member units;

(ix) Other responsibilities under laws, regulations and regulations.

Article 9. The Maritime Search and Rescue Centre shall, in accordance with its superior maritime search for emergency response scenarios, prepare a maritime search and rescue response case, after approval by the Government of the current people.

The member units of the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre should develop specific implementation programmes, based on the current level of maritime search and rescue preparedness.

Article 10 above-mentioned sectors relating to the transport, finance, health, fisheries, civil affairs, meteorology, environmental protection, oceans, public safety, security of production monitoring, should be searched at sea on the basis of the pre-responsibility of emergencies or the responsibilities established by the current people's Government.

Medical institutions, communications, insurance, ship transport, civil aviation, ports, etc., business units and individuals should assist in the search and rescue-related work at sea.

Article 11. The State's professional help force, the public service of the Government, and other civilian vessels and aircraft that can be involved in the rescue operation, as well as social and material resources such as business units, social groups, individuals, etc., are maritime search and rescue forces and should be subject to coordination, command, participation in emergency operations such as maritime search and rescue.

Chapter III Early warning and risk reporting

Article 12. Monitoring sectors such as meteorology, oceans and seas should provide information such as sea meteorology, hydrology, as requested by the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre.

The relevant member units of the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre should study the analysis of information that may result in a dangerous incident at sea, the timely publication of early warning information and the targeting of preparations for maritime search and rescue.

Relevant units, vessels, facilities and their personnel engaged in maritime activities should pay attention to receiving all types of early warning information and take appropriate preventive measures at different early warning levels.

Article 13. Ships, facilities, aircraft or persons should report immediately to the near-Earth search and rescue centre when they are at risk at sea.

Other units, vessels, facilities, aircraft or personnel were informed of information about maritime risk situations, and reports should be made available on a timely basis to near-flight maritime search and rescue centres.

The Urban Maritime Search and Rescue Centre in the Coastal Zone has set up “12395” calls for maritime search and rescue.

Article 14. Risk reports should include, to the extent possible, the following:

(i) Time, location, cause, status and measures taken and requests for assistance;

(ii) Profiles of vessels, facilities, aircraft and their names and means of communication;

(iii) Number, nationality, communication and injury of persons at risk;

(iv) The condition of the ship's delivery, including the name, type and quantity of the goods;

(v) Meteorological, sea-based information on the sea in the event of a dangerous situation, including wind, wind, flow, turmoil, tidal, water temperature, and waves;

(vi) Other risk information on pollutant levies and water pollution.

No unit or individual may be charged with a false or intentional exaggeration. The risk situation should be reported immediately and measures taken to eliminate its impact.

Article 16, after the occurrence of a dangerous ship, facility, aircraft and their personnel, shall take all effective measures to recover themselves.

Risk vessels, facilities, aircraft and their personnel should be reported immediately to the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre.

Chapter IV Search and rescue operations

The Maritime Search and Rescue Centre, after receiving a report on the risk situation, should immediately verify the risk situation and launch a maritime search and rescue case in a timely manner, depending on the level of risk.

In the area of responsibility for searching and rescue at sea, the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre should organize maritime search and rescue operations in accordance with the nature of the risk and the requirement for rescue, and report to the Shanghai Search and Rescue Centre and the Government of the people at the highest level, as required by the maritime search and rescue advance case.

In the area of responsibility for searching and rescue at sea, the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre should immediately communicate to the Centre for Maritime Search and Rescue in the area of risk, and report to the Shanghai Search and Rescue Centre at the highest level.

Article 18 Risks at sea are divided into general, larger, significant, special, and at all levels are dealt with in accordance with the relevant provisions of national and present provinces.

Search and rescue operations organized, coordinated and commanded by the Shanghai Search and Rescue Centre, which should be actively coordinated and assisted.

Article 19 units responsible for maritime search and rescue should be subject to the uniform coordination command of the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre and the timely dispatch of search and rescue forces to engage in search and rescue operations.

Article 20 should conduct prompt search and rescue operations in accordance with search and rescue directives, and report on their means of communication, movables and on their arrival on-site hours after the start of the search and rescue operation.

Article 21, where vessels, facilities, aircraft or persons close to the location of the situation receive search and rescue orders, rescue signals or persons found to be at risk, should make every effort to search and rescue those in the event that there is no serious threat to their security.

The direction of the maritime search and rescue site is under the responsibility of the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre or its designated site command, which is not pre-designated by the search and rescue forces initially arriving on the ground.

Online commands should make every effort to coordinate on-site search and rescue operations to implement the search and rescue directives of the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre and to report on the ground and search and rescue results in a timely manner to them.

Ships, facilities, aircraft, units and personnel searching on-site should be subject to the coordination and command of the on-site command and no unit or individual may impede the coordination and command of the site command on the search and rescue operations at sea.

Article 23. The event of a vessel, facility, aircraft and its personnel shall be in line with the maritime search and rescue operation.

In order to guarantee the safety of the victims and the rescue community, where necessary, on-site command has the right to determine the enforcement of the assistance.

Article 24 is subject to objective conditions, such as meteorology, sea conditions, and technological conditions, which prevent maritime search and rescue operations from being carried out and the search and rescue centres responsible for command may temporarily suspend maritime search and rescue operations. Restrictive conditions of mitigation or release should be restored in a timely manner.

Article 25 Maritime Search and Rescue Centre responsible for commanding the search and rescue operation may take a decision to end the search and rescue operation in accordance with the following:

(i) Victims have been successfully rescued or cancelled in emergencies;

(ii) The possibility of survival under conditions such as temperatures, water temperatures, wind waves at the time;

(iii) Areas where a person may be in danger have been searched;

(iv) The harm to water pollution has been removed or controlled.

Article 26 The suspension, recovery and termination of the search and rescue operation, in addition to the decision taken by the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre under the command, shall, if necessary, be submitted to the Government of the people at this level, in accordance with the provisions of the Northern Province Maritime Search and Rescue Profile.

The Maritime Search and Rescue Centre should inform units and individuals participating in maritime search and rescue operations in a timely manner of the decision to suspend, rehabilitate and terminate maritime search and rescue operations.

Article 27, without the consent of the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre responsible for command, shall not withdraw from search and rescue operations by vessels, facilities, aircraft.

Article 28 requires the participation of outside search and rescue forces in maritime search and rescue operations, coordinated by the provincial Maritime Search and Rescue Centre.

Article 29 of the Maritime Search and Rescue Information was published by the people responsible for commanding the search and rescue operation or by the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre.

No unit or person shall be created and disseminated false information about the search and rescue work at sea.

Chapter V

Article 33 The Maritime Search and Rescue Centre should maintain a 24-hour work.

The members of the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre and the maritime search and rescue force should establish a system of emergency duty classes and communications liaison and maintain communications with the Centre.

More than thirty-first district-level awareness-raising campaigns about people's governments and at all levels of maritime search and rescue centres should be strengthened.

The Maritime Search and Rescue Centre could establish a team of experts for maritime search and rescue operations to provide professional technical advice for maritime search and rescue.

In article 32, the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre should organize a naval search and rescue exercise or perform, targeting different situations, which should be approved by the Government of the people at the current level and presented to the Shanghai Search and Rescue Centre at the highest level.

Article 33 above of the district concerned the Government of the People and its associated sectors of health, civil affairs, public safety and security should be able to work in good faith in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and the province.

Article 34 above of the People's Government concerned the production, provision and provision of services by organizations that require medical, transport and other supplies, if necessary, for the operation of maritime search and rescue operations.

The confiscated property should be returned in a timely manner after its use has been completed. Removal and loss of property shall be compensated by law.

The communes of the provinces, coastal zones should include provisions for maritime search and rescue efforts in the financial budget; deal with higher and above-level sea-risk situations, with insufficient requirements for maritime search and rescue; and the municipalities in the coastal zone should grant the necessary emergency funding assistance.

Social organizations and individuals are encouraged to do so at sea for search and rescue.

The Maritime Search and Rescue Centre should make provision for the use and management of search and rescue operations and emergency funding, as required. The requirements for COSPAS-SARSAT and emergency funds are earmarked for:

(i) Expenditure on the daily operation of the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre;

(ii) Maritime search and rescue exercises, performance and related training;

(iii) The acquisition and maintenance of maritime search and rescue facilities, equipment;

(iv) To encourage units and personnel that make a prominent contribution in maritime search and rescue operations;

(v) Provide the necessary compensation for the search and rescue of social search and rescue forces involved in maritime search and rescue operations.

Chapter VI Legal responsibility

Article 37: The Maritime Search and Rescue Centre and other staff members in the Maritime Search and Rescue Service are treated by law, which constitutes an offence and are held criminally by law:

(i) No information, such as sea meteorology, hydrology or early warning information, as requested;

(ii) Failure to dispatch search and rescue forces in sea search and rescue operations in a timely manner, as instructed by the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre;

(iii) The absence of a system of emergency duty and communications liaison;

(iv) Be not required to take part in a naval search and rescue exercise;

(v) Other acts that do not carry out their duties, do not obey the command, do not act actively and cause significant loss at the time of the event.

Article 338, in violation of article 15 and article 16, paragraph 2, of this provision, provides a warning by the Maritime Authority and a fine of up to one thousand United States dollars, in addition to the costs incurred for search and rescue.

Article 39, in violation of article 22, paragraph 3, and article 27, is warned by the Maritime Authority in the light of the circumstances, with a fine of up to one thousand dollars, and may be subject to the law to the certificate of the holder of the vessel, the facility or other appropriate documents of three to six months.

In violation of article 49, paragraph 2, of this provision, the Maritime Search and Rescue Centre is responsible for its elimination and recommends that its superior authorities or their affiliates be held accountable to the responsible person in accordance with the law; constitute a breach of the law and sanctioned by the public security authority by law.

Chapter VII

Article 40 states that search and rescue work in river waters within the territorial administration is carried out in accordance with this provision.

Article 42 of the People's Liberation Army of China and the Armed Forces of the People of China participate in maritime search and rescue operations, which are implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State.

Article 43