Early Childhood Education and Care Act Article 10

Municipal and county(city) competent authorities shall assist public elementary schools on offshore islands and in remote areas to establish affiliated preschools.Community cooperative or tribal cooperative educare services may be provided based on the geographical restrictions of offshore islands and remote areas and in accordance with the living and learning needs of children; establishment of said institution must be approved by the municipal or county(city) competent authority prior to enrollment of children and educare services.To provide young indigenous children opportunities to learn their ethnic language, history, culture, and to promote the tribal spirit of caring, tribal cooperative educare services may be provided; establishment of said institution must be approved by the municipal or county(city) competent authority prior to enrollment of children and educare services.To care for the children and grandchildren of employees of government agencies(institutes), companies, and non-government organizations, workplace cooperative educare services may be provided; establishment of said institution must be approved by the municipal or county(city) competent authority prior to enrollment of children and educare services.The locations, methods of conduct, enrollment quota, qualifications and allocation of personnel, conditions and procedures for approval, environment, facilities and equipment, healthcare and sanitation, counseling and assistance from the municipal or county(city) competent authority, inspection, management, revocation or cancellation of permit, fee collection and refund, and other relevant matters regarding the preceding three Paragraphs shall be stipulated by the central competent authority in consultation with the central indigenous competent authority and central labor affairs competent authority.Where the provision of educare services referred to in Paragraphs 2 and 3 are adopted and public real estate is needed, the authority responsible for public property management may provide the public real estate through rental. The annual rent shall be calculated based on the land value tax and house tax payable for the year in accordance with the law.Where government agencies/institutions commission a non-profit juridical person to operate workplace cooperative educare services and public real estate is needed, it shall be made available at no cost for use by the entrusted non-profit juridical person; if said public real estate is not under management by the state, the government may appropriate it, or the managing authority may agree to make it available at no cost to the government agency/institution.Where an incorporated government owned enterprise commissions a non-profit juridical person to operate workplace cooperative educare services, it is not subject to the restrictions set forth in the Government Procurement Act unless otherwise stipulated in treaties or agreements concluded by the Republic of China.The non-profit juridical person referred to in the preceding two Paragraphs include private school endowment corporations.Educare services referred to in Paragraphs 2 to 4 operating in teaching locations of schools at all levels may retain their original building usage classification, and are not required to apply for usage alteration license in accordance with Article 73 of the Building Act.