Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation Article 56-1
The central competent authority may establish a food safety protection fund for protecting the consumers' right in the event of food safety and the fund may be commissioned to the authorized and appointed other agencies (institutions), corporations or organizations.The sources of funds mentioned in the preceding paragraph are as follows:1. funds from the partial appropriation of administrative fines in violation of this Act;2. criminal fines that are fined pursuant to this Act; and cash from confiscating or indemnifying or proceeds from the sale of the confiscated property due to the violation of this Act;3. the partial appropriation of improper gains that are forfeited, retrieved, indemnified or offset pursuant to this Act or Administrative Penalty Act;4. accrued interest income generated by the fund;5. revenues from donations;6. appropriations made by the government through budgetary process; and7. other related revenues.The sources of funds mentioned in the subparagraphs 1 and 3 of the preceding paragraph are applicable to the dispositions that become effective from the date after June 21, 2013.The fund mentioned in Paragraph 1 is used for the following purposes:1. to subsidize consumer protection groups the attorney fees and relevant litigation costs for consumer litigation filed in accordance with the Consumer Protection Law and resulted from the food sanitation and safety incident;2. to subsidize fees concerning human health risk assessment on specified food sanitation and safety incident which has been announced by a public notice;3. to subsidize employees for attorney fees and relevant litigation costs for restoring the original status, payment and damage compensation when an employee was fired, reassigned the jobs or otherwise took any adverse sanction by the employer due to disclosing the employer’s behavior which violates this Act;4. to subsidize rewards governed by the regulations in Paragraph 2 of Article 43; or5. to subsidize other relevant fees concerning food safety promotion and consumer litigation.The central competent authority shall establish a supervision panel for management and utilization of the fund which composed of experts and scholars, consumer protection organizations, and impartial citizens to supervise the subsidizing affairs.The regulation governing the recipients of the subsidies, application qualifications, review procedures, subsidization standard, revocation of subsidies of the fund mentioned in Paragraph 4, the formation and operation of the supervision panel for management and utilization of the fund mentioned in the preceding paragraph and other matters to be complied with shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.
中文原文 食品安全衛生管理法第56-1條
中央主管機關為保障食品安全事件消費者之權益，得設立食品安全保護基金，並得委託其他機關（構）、法人或團體辦理。
前項基金之來源如下：
一、違反本法罰鍰之部分提撥。
二、依本法科處並繳納之罰金，及因違反本法規定沒收或追徵之現金或變賣所得。
三、依本法或行政罰法規定沒入、追繳、追徵或抵償之不當利得部分提撥。
四、基金孳息收入。
五、捐贈收入。
六、循預算程序之撥款。
七、其他有關收入。
前項第一款及第三款來源，以其處分生效日在中華民國一百零二年六月二十一日以後者適用。
第一項基金之用途如下：
一、補助消費者保護團體因食品衛生安全事件依消費者保護法之規定，提起消費訴訟之律師報酬及訴訟相關費用。
二、補助經公告之特定食品衛生安全事件，有關人體健康風險評估費用。
三、補助勞工因檢舉雇主違反本法之行為，遭雇主解僱、調職或其他不利處分所提之回復原狀、給付工資及損害賠償訴訟之律師報酬及訴訟相關費用。
四、補助依第四十三條第二項所定辦法之獎金。
五、補助其他有關促進食品安全之相關費用。
中央主管機關應設置基金運用管理監督小組，由學者專家、消保團體、社會公正人士組成，監督補助業務。
第四項基金之補助對象、申請資格、審查程序、補助基準、補助之廢止、前項基金運用管理監督小組之組成、運作及其他應遵行事項之辦法，由中央主管機關定之。
前項基金之來源如下：
一、違反本法罰鍰之部分提撥。
二、依本法科處並繳納之罰金，及因違反本法規定沒收或追徵之現金或變賣所得。
三、依本法或行政罰法規定沒入、追繳、追徵或抵償之不當利得部分提撥。
四、基金孳息收入。
五、捐贈收入。
六、循預算程序之撥款。
七、其他有關收入。
前項第一款及第三款來源，以其處分生效日在中華民國一百零二年六月二十一日以後者適用。
第一項基金之用途如下：
一、補助消費者保護團體因食品衛生安全事件依消費者保護法之規定，提起消費訴訟之律師報酬及訴訟相關費用。
二、補助經公告之特定食品衛生安全事件，有關人體健康風險評估費用。
三、補助勞工因檢舉雇主違反本法之行為，遭雇主解僱、調職或其他不利處分所提之回復原狀、給付工資及損害賠償訴訟之律師報酬及訴訟相關費用。
四、補助依第四十三條第二項所定辦法之獎金。
五、補助其他有關促進食品安全之相關費用。
中央主管機關應設置基金運用管理監督小組，由學者專家、消保團體、社會公正人士組成，監督補助業務。
第四項基金之補助對象、申請資格、審查程序、補助基準、補助之廢止、前項基金運用管理監督小組之組成、運作及其他應遵行事項之辦法，由中央主管機關定之。