Organization Act of the Academy for the Judiciary Article 2

The Academy is charged with the following responsibilities:1. Develop and train the personnel who have passed the judicial official examinations.2. Train the judicial personnel from the Ministry of Justice.3. Develop and train personnel other than those stipulated in the previous two paragraphs, per the approval by the Ministry of Justice.4. Investigate, analyze and research on criminal issues at the national level and policies related to criminal justice.Guidelines, plans and other matters related to the training stipulated in the first paragraph under this Article shall be determined by the Judges and Prosecutors Training Committee and implemented by the Academy.The Committee shall consist of 15 members with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court serving as the Chairperson and the Prosecutor General of the Supreme Prosecutors Office as the Vice Chairperson. The Chairperson, the Vice Chairperson of the Committee, and the President of the Academy are ex-officio committee members, and the remaining members are assigned as follows: two (2) members designated by the Executive Yuan, three (3) members designated by the Judicial Yuan, three (3) members designated by the Examination Yuan, two (2) members shall be attorneys at law and/or experts and scholars, and two (2) shall be impartial advocates for social justice. Both genders must be represented within the Committee; either gender must occupy no less than one-third (1/3) of the Committee seats. All Committee positions are without remuneration.