Enforcement Rules of the Household Registration Act Article 22

I.Household registration entries shall be registered in relevant columns or households, with causes and dates indicated. If the head of a household is the party concerned in the registration of household head alteration, death or presumption of death, move, household separation (combination), address alteration, household revocation, or household annulment, such household shall be listed as cancelled and the household record thereof shall be copied and the copy retained.II. If a household is cancelled as in the preceding paragraph due to household head alteration, death or presumption of death, move, address alteration, household revocation, or household annulment, and the household still has other members registered, the household registration applicant shall choose one member to be the new household head. If all household members registered have no or limited capacity to make juridical acts, the eldest member shall be the new household head.III.If the head of household is the party concerned in a registration of death or presumption of death, move, address alteration, household revocation or household annulment pursuant to Article 42, Article 48-1, or Article 48-2 of this Act, such household shall be listed as cancelled and one new household head chosen from the remaining household members pursuant to the preceding Paragraph.