Construction Industry Act Article 25

The construction and repair works or specialized works contracted by a comprehensive construction enterprise may be subcontracted to specialized construction enterprises unless the orderer requires the comprehensive construction enterprise to perform construction by itself, and the comprehensive construction enterprise shall burden the construction liabilities of the subcontracted works, and the subcontractor specialized construction enterprise shall assume joint and severe liabilities for the subcontracted proportion of the works.Where the subcontract is reported to the orderer for reference and has been recorded by the subcontractor specialized construction enterprise in the projects contracting manual, and the comprehensive construction enterprise has transfer the rights of the subcontracted proportion to the subcontractor specialized construction enterprise, the mortgage rights under Article 513 and the right to claim caused by accession under Article 816 of the Civil Code are equivalent to the comprehensive construction enterprise's rights to claim price or remuneration from the orderer.Besides to undertake subcontracted works according to the first paragraph, specialized construction enterprises may, according to the items of registered specialized works, hire specialized works and the necessary related construction & repair works from manufacturers on order.