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1. Introductory
provisions
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| Article 1-The Emergency Code | ||
| 1.1 | The Law of Africans Union | |
| The Emergency Code of Africans Union consists of this
present Code. All existing and new laws providing for preparing for disaster before it happens, disaster response, as well as supporting, and rebuilding society after natural or human-made disasters are
subject to inclusion in the present Code. |
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| The present Code is granted authority by Article 143 of the Charter of Africans Union and therefore may be taken as a legitimate element of the body of the Charter. |
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| 1.2 | Structure of the Emergency Code |
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| The Emergency Code is structured into chapters, which in
turn are divided into articles and then one or more clauses within each
article.
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| The major chapters of the Emergency Code are:
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| 1.Introductory provisions 2. Code of conduct 3. Imprisonment and social objectives 4. Needs, Rights, responsibilities and privileges of prisoners 5. General principles of Type 1 (T1) facilities 6. General principles of Type 2 (T2) facilities 7. General principles of Type 3 (T3) facilities 8. General principles of Prisoner Classification 9. Correctional system objects 10. Correctional system facility objects 11. General systems and procedures |
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| While an article may belong to a particular chapter, the numbering of all articles is consecutive so that the entire body of articles of the Emergency Code may be read as one, with or without the chapter headings. | ||
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