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; 104