Regulations on the Permission and Administration of the Employment of Foreign Workers Article 4

The entry visa held by a foreign national shall be deemed a work permit, should it be granted on the basis of an international written agreement specifying work by foreign na-tionals, the number of people and period of residence (stay), even when the primary pur-pose of the agreement is not entry into the Republic of China to work.The work permit period referred to in Paragraph 1 of this Article shall be no longer than one year.