Regulations for the Establishment and Permission of Private Children and Youth Welfare Institutes Article 11

Children and Youth Welfare Institutes subject to any downsizing, expansion or removal shall report the reasons and placement plan of the current children and youth, as well as the address after removal and the documents specified in Paragraph 1 of Article 3, three months in advance of the date of downsizing, expansion or removal to competent authorities for approval. The competent authorities shall complete examination of the preceding application of downsizing, expansion or removal within one month.Those who apply for expansion of the operation scale prescribed in Paragraph 1 shall be located in the same buildings where operation spaces are in the same floors or different floors with no more than one floor that can go straight up and down; if located in different buildings, all shall be in the scope of the land where the original institutes were permitted, or join with the land which the original institutes were permitted in as well as be not separated from by roads, railways, permanently open space, or other obstacles to be established.After downsizing, expansion or removal of children and Youth Welfare Institutes according to the permission prescribed in Paragraph 1, competent authorities shall join with the relevant authorities to inspect if their equipment and facilities conform to the regulations before approving their operations.The removal referred to in Paragraph 1 of crossing administrative districts in the original licensing competent authority’s jurisdiction shall apply for permission of reestablishment, and the original competent authority shall abolish the original permit.