Enforcement Rules of the Detention Act Article 39

When a defendant or a defendant’s nearest relative or family member requests health examination of the defendant inside detention center in accordance with Paragraph 3, Article 49 of the Act, the following rules shall be complied with:1. A written statement shall be made to provide the reason for such a request and medical practitioner that the defendant wishes to engage at own cost, and a document showing a physician’s evaluation that such examination is necessary.2. Following review and approval by the detention center, the defendant or the defendant’s nearest relative or family member may engage medical practitioner to perform health examination for the defendant inside detention center. When the defendant receiving examination is held incommunicado by ruling of the court, the detention center shall prepare relevant data to inform the court or the public prosecutor that made the ruling or detention request.3. When medical practitioner engaged by a defendant at own cost enters the detention center, he or she shall present his or her practice license and supporting document showing approval to practice outside his/her practice site; if necessary, the detention center may make verification with the practice site.4. The medical practitioner engaged by the defendant at own cost shall produce and maintain records in accordance with the Medical Care Act and applicable medical professional regulations and deliver the inspection records to the detention center for safekeeping. Any inspection report issued by the medical practitioner shall be consistent with medical professionalism and document the examination result.5. The medical institution that employs the medical practitioner shall issue a receipt for the expense incurred for health examination and the expense should be paid by defendant’s nearest relative or family member in principle; if necessary, the detention center may deduct and pay the expense from defendant’s money under safekeeping or labor compensation.6. The detention center shall determine the time, location and manner of health examination to be performed in detention center by medical practitioner engaged by a defendant at own cost based on the nature of examination and actual situation.
中文原文 羈押法施行細則第39條
被告或其最近親屬及家屬依本法第四十九條第三項規定,請求於看守所內實施健康檢查,依下列規定辦理:
一、應以書面敘明申請理由、欲自費延請之醫事人員,並檢附經醫師評估認有實施檢查必要之文件。
二、經看守所審查核准後,被告得自行或由其最近親屬或家屬自費延請醫事人員進入看守所進行健康檢查。
健康檢查對象為經裁定羈押之法院禁止其接見通信之被告時,看守所應檢具相關資料,通知為裁定羈押之法院或檢察官。
三、自費延請之醫事人員進入看守所提供醫療服務時,應向看守所出示執業執照及核准至執業場所以外處所執行業務之證明文件,必要時,看守所得向其執業場所確認。
四、自費延請之醫事人員應依醫療法及相關醫事人員法規規定製作及保存紀錄,並將檢查紀錄交付看守所留存。
開立之檢查報告應秉持醫療專業,依檢查結果記載。
五、自費實施健康檢查所需之費用,由醫事人員所屬之機構開立收據,由被告之最近親屬或家屬支付為原則,必要時得由看守所自被告之保管金或勞作金中扣繳轉付。
六、自費延請醫事人員於看守所內實施健康檢查之實施時間、地點、方式,由看守所依其特性與實際情形決定之。

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