Gender Equity Education Act Article 40

When a school's competent authority investigates and handles gender-related incidents on campus, it shall provide the school with consultation services, counseling assistance, legal supervision, or corrective actions.If the school's competent authority finds that the school's gender equity education committee has failed to convene meetings in accordance with the law, has convened meetings but has failed to review matters for which review is required, or its investigation has procedural or substantive flaws, or if there are legal uncertainties regarding the investigation's determinations, and such findings are made before completion of the school's reconsideration process, the competent authority shall specify the reasons and notify the school to address these matters in tandem with the reconsideration process. If such matters are not addressed in tandem with the reconsideration process or if a request for reconsideration is not made within the specified time period, the competent authority shall return the matters, specifying the grounds for doing so, to the school's gender equity education committee for review within a prescribed period.After the competent authority returns the matters to the school's gender equity education committee for review pursuant to the preceding Paragraph, if the school's gender equity education committee fails to conduct a review in accordance with the law within the prescribed period or if the results of the review still raise concerns of illegality or impropriety, the competent authority may refer the matters directly to the gender equity education committee it has established, specifying the grounds for doing so, and this committee's determination shall be considered as equivalent to a determination by the school's gender equity education committee.When the competent authority's review of the circumstances described in the preceding paragraph reaches a determination that the school is at fault, the competent authority shall include that determination as a factor in school evaluation, reduction of grants (subsidies), or administrative assessment, and shall also hold responsible individuals accountable.