Regulations for Conducting Visits via Communication Devices in Prisons and Detention Centers Article 7

As stipulated in Paragraph 1, Article 73 of the Prison Act or Paragraph 1, Article 63 of the Detention Act, where an authority deems the request of a visit from an individual has a reasonable cause, it may allow them to conduct the visit by telephone or other means of communication. Such cause shall refer to any of the following:1. It is inconvenient for family members or nearest relatives to visit an inmate in the authority2. It is inconvenient for a lawyer or attorney to visit an inmate in the authority;3. Due to any of the following circumstances, it is inconvenient for any individual other than those specified in the preceding two subparagraphs to visit an inmate in the authority, but they are in urgent need to contact the inmate:(1) The individual is aged 65 or older or under the age of 12;(2) The individual may be or is infected with the diseases defined in any subparagraph of Paragraph 1, Article 3 of the Communicable Disease Control Act, or suffers from the major illness and injury defined in the attached table for Paragraph 1, Article 2 of the Regulations Governing the Exemption of the National Health Insurance Beneficiaries from the Co-Payment, or has physical or mental disabilities;(3) The individual or the property thereof suffers damage caused by the disasters defined in Subparagraph 1, Article 2 of the Disaster Prevention and Protection Act;(4) The individual requests a visit because any of the inmate’s family member or nearest relative is deceased or in a life-threatening situation;(5) The individual is one of the diplomatic and consular personnel from the inmate’s country or region or one of the personnel that may represent the inmate’s country or region;(6) Other circumstances deemed major or extraordinary by the authority
中文原文 監獄及看守所辦理使用通訊設備接見辦法第7條
依監獄行刑法第七十三條第一項或羈押法第六十三條第一項規定,機關認請求接見者有相當理由時,得許可其使用電話或其他通訊方式接見,指有下列情形之一:
一、家屬或最近親屬,未便至機關接見。
二、律師或辯護人,未便至機關接見。
三、前二款以外之人,有下列情事之一,未便至機關接見,而有急迫聯繫需要:
(一)請求接見者係年滿六十五歲或未滿十二歲。
(二)請求接見者係疑似或罹患傳染病防治法第三條第一項各款所定之疾病、罹患全民健康保險保險對象免自行負擔費用辦法第二條第一項附表所定之重大傷病或身心障礙。
(三)請求接見者或其財物,因遭受災害防救法第二條第一款所定災難而造成禍害。
(四)請求接見者因收容人之家屬或最近親屬喪亡或有生命危險。
(五)請求接見者係收容人所屬國或地區之外交、領事人員或可代表其國家或地區之人員。
(六)其他經機關認有重大或特殊之情形。

English translation for reference only; the Chinese text prevails. Not legal advice.