These Regulations are enacted in accordance with Paragraph 7, Article 50, of the Telecommunications Management Act（hereinafter referred to as this Act）.

The administration of ship radio stations shall be prescribed in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations. The matters not stipulated in this Regulations shall be prescribed in accordance with other laws or regulations or with reference to the provisions of the International Radio Regulations and the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea.

The terms used in these Regulations are defined as follows:
1. Ship radio station refers to the transmitting or receiving radio equipment or automatic distress alert equipment installed on board for communications.
2. Distress communications refers to communications related to immediate danger, such as fire, explosions, flooding, collision, stranding, capsizing, sinking, out-of-control drifting, armed attack, other maritime disasters, abandoning the ship, performing and coordinating search and rescue, or individuals falling overboard, etc.
3. Emergency communications refers to communications related to emergencies, such as ship mechanical failure, loss of cargo, medical assistance or severely blocked navigation.
4. Safety communications refers to communications related to navigation safety such as meteorology, hydrology, visibility, drifting objects, etc. during sailing.
5. Maritime mobile service identity refers to that being used in maritime mobile service and satellite maritime mobile service as the identifier of the unique identification of ship radio station, ship earth station, coast station, coast earth station or other stations in accordance with the Radio Regulations of International Telecommunications Union.

Ship radio stations shall be categorized as follows:
1. Ship radio stations for Global Maritime Distress and Safety Systems;
2. Ship radio stations for Non-Global Maritime Distress and Safety Systems.
The ship captain shall be in charge of the ship radio station.

The communications and related electronic operations of a ship radio station shall be conducted by seafarers certified by the competent authorities, in charge of navigation careers, with expertise in ship radio communications.
One seafarer as designated by the captain shall be hold primary responsibility for radio communications while a ship is in distress. The radio logbooks shall be maintained for entering all detailed operations.

The performance standard and the installation of the ship radio station shall conform to the relevant requirements of the Part Seven of the Ship Equipment Regulations.