Annotated Republic of China Laws/Central Regulation Standard Act/Article 8

Central Regulation Standard Act
Republic of China (Taiwan) Law
Article 8

First promulgated on 1970-08-31 edit

Article 8[1]
The code of a regulation shall be vertically written under the sequence of the articles with a heading of “Article X”, and one article may be divided into paragraph, subsection or item subsequently. Paragraph shall be coded with two character spaces without a number as the heading.  Subsection shall be coded with a heading of Chinese numbers. Item shall be coded with a heading of Chinese numbers plus Chinese quotations.

Promulgated amendment on 2004-05-19 edit

Article 8[2]
The code of a regulation shall be written under the sequence of the articles with a heading of “Article X”, and one article may be divided into paragraph, subsection or item subsequently. Paragraph shall be coded with two character spaces without a number as the heading.  Subsection shall be coded with a heading of Chinese numbers. Item shall be coded with a heading of Chinese numbers plus Chinese quotations.
While the item stipulated in the preceding paragraph is divided into more detailed catalogs, the heading shall be Arabian numbered and shall be cited as 1, 2, or 3 of the certain item.

Annotated by Wikibooks edit

Taiwanese legal texts used to be vertically written. The 2004 amendment makes horizontal writing permissible with the second paragraph added.

  1. Derived from the 2004 text.
  2. "Central Regulation Standard Act". Laws & Regulations Database of The Republic of China. Ministry of Justice (Taiwan). 2004-05-19. Retrieved 2017-04-07.