Land Expropriation Act Article 23

Any expropriated land or land improvement shall not be subdivided, consolidated, transferred or encumbered, unless the land or land improvement ownership or other rights thereon have been acquired through inheritance, compulsory enforcement or judicial decision prior to the public announcement of expropriation and the registration of rights has been applied for during the public announcement period. Nor shall the landowners or users undertake any new constructional improvement, addition or remodeling of existing buildings, or extraction of earth and gravel on the land, or change of landform, or plant more agricultural improvements on the land. In case any of the aforementioned works is ongoing when the public announcement is made, it shall be immediately stopped.When jointly owned but separately managed farmland is partially expropriated, landowners may apply for subdivision of the co-owned land or swap/transfer of part of co-owned land before the compensation payment is fully distributed or the distribution of “land in lieu of compensation in cash” (referred to as “land for compensation” hereunder) is approved without being subject to the subdivision and transfer restriction as provided in the preceding paragraph.