School Health Act Article 23-2

Each municipal and county (city) government shall form a School Lunch Advisory Council that is responsible for setting standards, advising, assessing schools ’ school-lunch related operations, and giving associated awards and incentives, or penalties.Schools at the senior secondary and lower levels that serve lunch shall establish a School Lunch Council or an organization of the same nature; its composition, the selection of its members, and the principles governing supplies and conflict of interest shall be determined by each relevant competent authority. Parents of current students shall account for at least one-fourth of the members.The competent authority shall provide subsidies for junior high schools and elementary schools to establish kitchens, and shall provide subsidies for schools at the senior secondary and lower levels that are located in mountainous, remote, or outlying island areas to operate a lunch program that is needed because of their location, and shall collaborate with the competent agricultural authorities with regard to the supply of local ingredients. The regulations governing such subsidies shall be determined by the competent authority. The central competent authority shall regularly collaborate with municipal and county (city) governments to review the operation of school lunch programs and send personnel to undertake on-site inspections. The way the review will be conducted, the specific items to be reviewed, and the number of schools to be reviewed shall be determined through joint consultation by the competentauthority in consultation with the municipal and county (city) governments.