Regulations on the Authorization and Management of Overseas Employment of Foreign Crew Members Article 19

Any recruitment agent intending to terminate its operations (hereinafter referred to as the inoperative recruitment agent) shall submit, three months prior to terminating operations, a plan of handling the operation termination and apply to the competent authority for approval.The competent authority shall, upon approval of the application as referred to in the preceding paragraph, order the inoperative recruitment agent to transfer its recruiting business to other recruitment agent(s) (hereinafter the assuming recruitment agent(s)) within the required timeframe.The inoperative recruitment agent as referred to in the preceding paragraph shall not conduct any other recruiting business, except for transferring the recruiting business and repatriating foreign crew members to their home countries.Once the inoperative recruitment agent has fulfilled its obligations as referred to in the preceding paragraph, it shall apply to the competent authority for revocation of its authorization as the recruitment agent with the enclosure of the following documents:1. Lists of distant water fisheries operator(s) who originally commissioned the recruitment agent and the foreign crew members employed thereby.2. Documents proving that distant water fisheries operator(s) agrees to terminate the contract(s).3. A copy of the commission contract(s) signed between distant water fisheries operator(s) and the assuming recruitment agent(s).The assuming recruitment agent(s) shall have the evaluation grade B or above in the previous year.The assuming recruitment agent(s) shall re-enter into commission contract(s) with the distant water fisheries operator(s), and the distant water fisheries operator(s) shall apply for the permission in accordance with Article 23, paragraph 1 to employ the foreign crew member(s).The inoperative recruitment agent whose authorization has been revoked may only apply for the interest-free refund of the guarantee bond four months after the date of revocation. Where such application is approved by the competent authority, the guarantee bond shall be refunded without interest after deducting any amount applied to satisfy obligations pursuant to Article 17, paragraph 1.An authorized recruitment agent that has never conducted recruitment of any foreign crew member may apply for revocation of authorization and interest-free refund of the guarantee bond.