Firearms, Ammunition, and Knives Control Act Article 20

1. Indigenous people who manufacture, transport, or possess self-made hunting rifles, their main components, or ammunition; or indigenous and fishing people who manufacture, transport, or possess self-made harpoons for use as living tools without permission shall be fined NT$2,000 to NT$20,000. The provisions concerning criminal penalties in this Act shall not apply.2. Indigenous people who trade, transfer, rent, lend, or store self-made hunting rifles, their main components, ammunition, or self-made harpoons among themselves for use as living tools without permission shall be fined NT$2,000 to NT$20,000. The provisions concerning criminal penalties in this Act shall not apply.3. Regulations on the structure of self-made hunting rifles and harpoons, self-made hunting rifle ammunition, and the application, conditions, term, revocation, inspection, and other compliance matters for the permissions mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs shall be determined by the central competent authority in conjunction with the central indigenous peoples' competent authority and the Ministry of National Defense.4. Indigenous people who were sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment or more for simply manufacturing, transporting, possessing, trading, transferring, renting, lending, or storing self-made hunting rifles and harpoons before the amendment and implementation of this Act on November 14, 2001, may still apply for permission to manufacture them.5. The competent authority shall guide indigenous people and fishermen to legally apply for self-made hunting rifles and harpoons.6. Those who voluntarily turn in items in situations mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 during a public announcement period approved by the Executive Yuan and issued by the central competent authority shall be exempted from penalties.