Agricultural Development Act Article 12

The change of land use as stated in the first paragraph of Article 10 shall be subject to the payment of a feedback fund based on its business nature of the land in use. The said fund shall then be submitted to the Agriculture Development Fund established by the central competent authority pursuant to Article 54 for the purposes of agricultural development and farmers’ welfare.The payment and use of the monetary or in-kind donation of feedback nature or contribution for the change of land use as already stipulated in the respective laws of the business on the said land shall be proceeded pursuant to the governing law. In cases where the land is categorized as agricultural land, the exemption of payment is only applicable to those persons who had already made the payment prior to the taking effect of this revised Act of January 4, 2000; and in all other cases, authorities concerned shall allocate half of the payment collected, both monetary and in-kind, for the purpose as stipulated in the preceding paragraph.The regulations of the payment, appropriation, allocation and the standard of payment of the feedback funds, monetary and in-kind fund, as stated in the first two paragraphs, shall be formulated by the central competent authority in concert with other authorities concerned.The change of land use pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 10 may be exempted from the payment of feedback fund if any of the following is satisfied:1.Government projects of public construction or welfare facilities.2.Government projects of development of rural areas or facilities of farmers’ welfare.3.Infrastructure or facilities in areas notified by the Ministry of Economic Affairs as land subsidence, or in designated remote areas or on offshore islands by the central competent authority.