Enforcement Rules of the Land Expropriation Act Article 11-1

The term “special agricultural zone” referred to in Paragraph 3, Article 10 of the Act shall mean arable or pastoral land in a special agricultural zone; the term “dispute” shall mean the situation where after a construction project has been approved by the Executive Yuan as an infrastructure project and the expropriation application has sent a written notice to all owners of arable or pastoral lands in the special agricultural zone located within the project area notifying that they lands will be expropriated, any landowner raises objection to the necessity of including the arable or pastoral land he owns in the expropriation plan area, and remains objecting to the expropriation after the central industry competent authority in charge of the undertaking has made detailed explanation.Any objection referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be filed by the landowner in writing with the land use applicant or the central competent authority in charge of the relevant industry (in relation to the undertaking) in one month after receiving the notice (of land expropriation). Otherwise, it shall be deemed that the landowners do not have objection to the expropriation.Public hearings shall be held by the central competent authority in charge of the relevant industry (in relation to the undertaking) before the expropriation plan is submitted to the Central Competent Authority for review.