Act governing the administration of professional engineering consulting firms Article 5

The chairperson of the board of directors or the statutory representative of a professional engineering consulting firm shall be served by a practicing professional engineer except the following firms:1. A firm hires a minimum of twenty practicing professional engineers.2. A firm is listed on either the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) or Over-the-Counter (OTC).3. Where the Republic of China has executed a treaty of an international organization in an equal and reciprocal principle and where a firm of a member country has established an subsidiary or branch in the Republic of China, that foreign firm has been in business in its mother country for five years minimum since it was incorporated and has undertaken domestic, overseas engineering technological consultation services amounting to NT$2,000,000,000 minimum in accumulation over the past five years.4. A technological consulting organization which has obtained the technological consulting organization registration certificate in accordance with the Regulations Governing the Administration of Technological Consulting Organizations prior to enforcement of this Act; the chairperson or statutory representative of such organization has not been served by a practicing professional engineer, and such organization has been staffed with three practicing professional engineers minimum or has been staffed with two practicing professional engineers, including one as the manager and the other as the shareholder.The practicing professional engineers hired by a professional engineering consulting firm shall include one who has accumulated seven years of practical engineering experiences minimum which shall include two-year project leader experience minimum.A professional engineering consulting firm shall, on the grounds of various engineering branches of the registered business scope, provide one practicing professional engineer minimum for each and every engineering branch.