Schedule (C)
Powers of States
The exclusive executive and legislative powers of a state of the Sudan shall be
as follows:1.
The Constitution of the state, subject to compliance with the National
Constitution, and, as relevant, the Constitution of Southern Sudan;
2.
State Police, prisons;
3.
Local Government;
4.
State information, state publications and state media;
5.
Social Welfare including state pensions;
6.
The Civil Service at the state level;
7.
The State Judiciary and administration of justice at state level including
maintenance and organization of state Courts, and subject to national
norms and standards, civil and criminal procedure;
8.
State Land and state Natural Resources;
9.
Cultural matters within the state;
10. Regulation of religious matters;
11. Internal and external borrowing of money on the sole credit of the state
within the National macro-economic framework;
12. The establishment, tenure, appointment, and payment of state officers;
13. The management, lease and utilization of lands belonging to the
state;
14. The establishment, maintenance and management of reformatory
institutions;
15. The establishment, regulation, and provision of health care, including
hospitals and other health institutions;
16. Regulation of businesses, trade licenses, working conditions, hours,
and holidays within the state;
17. Local works and undertakings;
18. Registration of marriage, divorce, inheritance, births, deaths, adoption
and affiliations;
19. Enforcement of state laws;
20. Statutes enacted under the penal law power, save for the penalization
for the breach of National laws relating to the national competencies;
21. The development, conservation and management of state natural
resources and state forestry resources;
22. Primary and secondary schools and education administration in regard
thereto;
23. Laws in relation to agriculture within the state;
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