Communicable Disease Control Act Article 27

The central competent authority, to promote immunization policies for children and citizens, shall establish a fund to perform the procurement of vaccines and immunization work.Sources of the aforementioned fund are as follows:1. Subsidies from the government budgets;2. Surpluses generated by public-interest lotteries and health and welfare surcharges on tobacco products;3. Revenues from donations;4. Revenues from interest generated by this fund;5. Other relevant revenues.Revenues from any kinds of donations mentioned in Subparagraph 3 of the preceding Paragraph shall not be used for the procurement of designated vaccines.When using the vaccine fund for the procurement of additional vaccines, the procurement shall be made in accordance with the items recommended by the Communicable Disease Control Advisory Committee of the central competent authority and in a priority order based on cost-efficiency. Such procurement shall be made using the budgets prepared for the following year. Relevant meetings shall be recorded, and detailed meeting minutes shall be made public. Members of the Committee shall disclose the following information:1. Research projects and the amount of the subsidy received by the individual concerned and his/her affiliated groups from non-governmental organizations;2. Subsidies on vaccine-related research projects and funds given to the individual’s affiliated groups by non-governmental organizations;3. The individual’s role as a member of the board of directors or board of supervisors or as an advisor of a vaccine-related enterprise or corporation.Legal proxies of children shall ensure that children receive routine immunizations on schedule and present a record of immunization when entering elementary school.Elementary schools and pre-school (nurseries) institutions shall ensure non-immunized new students complete the required immunizations.