Act on Property-Declaration by Public Servants Article 11

All agencies (institutions) accepting property declarations shall conduct inspections on the case by case and proportionate bases for untruthful property declarations or unusual increments and decrements of properties. The scope, methods, and proportions shall be decided with the rules governing the review and public access of property declarations.In order to conduct inspections for untruthful property declarations, incompliance of property trust procedures, and unusual increments and decrements of properties, the agencies (institutions) accepting property declarations may interview the involving agencies (institutions), organizations, or individuals, and thus the interviewees are obliged to make truthful explanation. The Control Yuan and Ministry of Justice may also request necessary information to be provided by the involving agencies (institutions), organizations, or individuals through the Internet, nevertheless the requested is obliged to cooperate and provide the needed information.A fine ranging from NT$ twenty thousand dollars to one hundred thousand dollars shall be imposed upon the requested agencies (institutions), organizations, or individuals refusing to explain without justifiable reasons or making false explanations; for those being notified to make explanation under a time limit, and as a result, fail to explain timely or truthfully, consecutive fines may be respectively imposed according to the number of violations and each fine ranges from NT$ forty thousand dollars to two hundred thousand dollars. The same penalty applies to the requested agencies (institutions), organizations, or individuals rejecting to cooperate without justifiable reasons and offering false information.