Sexual Assault Crime Prevention Act Article 48

A competent regulatory authority shall impose a fine between sixty thousand New Taiwan dollars (NT$ 60,000) and six hundred thousand New Taiwan dollars (NT$ 600,000) on a broadcaster, or a television company, that is in violation of Paragraph 1 or Paragraph 3 of Article 16, or Paragraph 2 or Paragraph 3 of Article 7 of this Act (which requires the mutatis mutandis application of Paragraph 1 or Paragraph 3 of Article 16 of this Act), and also shall order the said broadcaster or the said television company to correct the said misconduct(s) within a period designated by the said competent regulatory authority; provided that, if the said broadcaster or the said television company fails to correct the said misconduct(s) within the abovementioned designated period, the said competent regulatory authority may impose fines on the said broadcaster or the said television company consecutively per violation.A competent regulatory authority shall impose a fine between sixty thousand New Taiwan dollars (NT$ 60,000) and six hundred thousand New Taiwan dollars (NT$ 600,000) on the person(s) in charge of an entity or an organization of any publicity materials, publications, Internet sources, or any other types of media, other than those mentioned in the preceding Paragraph, that is in violation of Paragraph 1 or Paragraph 3 of Article 16, or Paragraph 2 or Paragraph 3 of Article 7 of this Act (which requires the mutatis mutandis application of Paragraph 1 or Paragraph 3 of Article 16 of this Act), and may confiscate any items mentioned in Article 16 of this Act, or order the said entity or the said organization to remove, take down, or adopt any other necessary measure for, certain content within a period designated by the said competent regulatory authority; provided that, if the said entity or the said organization fails to comply with the abovementioned order of the said competent regulatory authority within the abovementioned designated period, the said competent regulatory authority may impose fines on the person(s) in charge of the said entity or the said organization consecutively per violation until the said entity or the said organization fully complies with the abovementioned order of the said competent regulatory authority.In the case where a Victim is dead, a competent regulatory authority may opt not to impose a fine prescribed in (either of) the two preceding Paragraphs, if the said competent regulatory authority, after taking into account and balancing the benefits of maintenance of law and order, maintenance of peace of mind among the public, clarification of misleading information, prevention of problem escalation, as well as other public interests of the society, finds the reporting or disclosure in dispute necessary.Anyone, other than those mentioned in Paragraph 1 or Paragraph 2 of this Article, who violates Paragraph 4 of Article 16, or Paragraph 2 or Paragraph 3 of Article 7 of this Act (which requires the mutatis mutandis application of Paragraph 4 of Article 16 of this Act), without justification, shall be subject to a fine between twenty thousand and one hundred thousand New Taiwan dollars.If there is no person in charge of publicity material, a publication, an Internet source, or any other type of media, or if the person in charge (of the said publicity material, the said publication, the said Internet source, or the said other type of media) is not in a position to supervise the conduct of the responsible perpetrator, the fine prescribed in Paragraph 2 of this Article shall be imposed on the responsible perpetrator.