Organizational Act of the National Science and Technology Council Article 7

When necessary, an individual possessing the equivalent of professorial qualifications at a school at the level of junior college or above may be hired to serve as the head of the Council's first-level service units; the retirement and consolation payments of such individuals shall be handled in accordance with regulations concerning teachers, and the Council shall grant its approval to such arrangements.
中文原文 科技部組織法第7條
本會一級業務單位主管必要時得比照專科以上學校教授之資格聘任;其退休、撫卹比照教師相關規定辦理,並由本會核定之。

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