Enforcement Rule of the Archives Act Article 23

Public access of the archives under Article 22 of the Act shall comply with the Act and the Direction for Access to Archives of the archives prescribed by the central archives competent authority.If the archives under a special circumstance cannot be accessed within thirty years in accordance with Article 22 of the Act, the original agency responsible for the management of those records may transfer the reasons and the prolonged period to the central archives competent authority for submitting it via the Executive Yuan for obtaining the approval by the Legislative Yuan.The thirty-year period prescribed in the preceding paragraph is calculated from the files and begins on the latest date of the record of that file.