Enforcement Rules of the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act Article 17

The evaluation procedure for the cultural heritage value shall be conducted before the disposing of the public buildings or affiliated facilities, or the buildings or affiliated facilities that were erected on public land (hereafter collectively referred as the buildings) constructed for more than 50 years under Article 15 of the Act. The evaluation procedure is stipulated as follows:1. The owning or managing agency (or institution) of the buildings shall notify the local competent authorities to conduct evaluations before disposition.2. When evaluating the cultural heritage, the competent authorities shall invite professionals and scholars or the Committee members of the concerned classification to conduct field survey or interviews, collect their opinions, and produce a record of field survey or interviews.3. The competent authorities shall produce cultural heritage evaluation reports in which reports shall include the explanation of individual case’s basic information, relevant meeting records, content of cultural heritage value evaluation, and the evaluation result, etc., based on the field survey or interview conclusions; and determine whether to initiate recording and tracing, review procedures of designation or registration, or take other appropriate monitoring measures according to suggestions of the reports.The disposition referred to in Article 15 of the Act shall mean any change in property rights or addition, alteration, construction, or demolition of the building.Cultural heritage evaluation conclusions shall be promulgated on the website of the competent authorities.When the competent authorities conduct the cultural heritage evaluation under Paragraph 1, they may perform the evaluation on a case-by-case basis and the actual conditions, along with the procedures set forth in Article 14 and Article 60 of the Act.