Land Act Article 219

The original owner of a expropriated private land may, within five years since the day that one year after the completion of the payment of compensation, apply to the Special Municipal or County (City) Land Administration Agency for its redemption at the price of originally amount of compensation, if any one of the following conditions applies:(1)It is not begun to be used according to the approved expropriation plan one year after the completion of the payment of compensation.(2)It is not used for the originally approved undertaking.The competent Special Municipal or County (City) Land Administration Agency shall submit all applications that are found upon examination to be covered by the preceding paragraph to the original approving authority for approval, and shall then notify the original landowners to repay the original amount of the compensation within six months. The redemption right shall be deemed to have been waived if the original landowner does not repay the compensations after the expiration of the time limit.If the original landowner is responsible for the circumstance referred to in Section (1) of Paragraph one, he cannot apply to redeem his land.After private land has been expropriated and used according to the approved plan, if its use is changed according to the urban plan, the public authority, which is entrusted with the care of the land, shall publicly announce for one month whenever the said authority plans to sell the land by public tender. Theoriginal landowner or his inheritor shall have the preferential right to purchase the land on the same terms as are bid by any other person. But the preferential right shall be deemed forfeited if the landowner or his inheritors does not express his intention to exercise such preferential right within ten days after the closing of the public tender.