Securities and Exchange Act Article 43
The payment or settlement of securities listed on a stock exchange or traded on over-the-counter markets shall be effected on a cash payment and actual delivery basis. The settlement period and the margin deposit to be paid in advance may be prescribed by an order of the Competent Authority.Settlement of trades of securities held in the custody of a centralized securities depository enterprise may be effected through book-entry transfer. The regulations for the operations thereof shall be prescribed by the Competent Authority.If securities held in the custody of a centralized securities depository enterprise are the subject of a pledge, the delivery of the pledge created may be effected through book-entry transfer, and Article 908 of the Civil Code shall not apply.Securities held in fungible custody by a securities depository shall be co-owned by the owners in accordance with the types and quantities of securities deposited by them. Upon withdrawal, securities of the same type and in the same quantity may be used to return them.To handle custody business, a centralized securities depository enterprise may enter the stock and corporate bonds held in its custody into the issuer's shareholders register or corporate bond counterfoils in its own name. When, before the stock or corporate bond issuer calls a shareholders meeting or corporate bondholders meeting, decides to distribute dividends or bonuses or other benefits, or pays principal or interest, the centralized securities depository enterprise notifies the issuer of the true name or title and domicile or residence of, and the amount held by, the owner of stock or corporate bonds held in its custody it shall be deemed to have entered that information into the issuer's shareholders register or corporate bond counterfoils or that the stock or corporate bonds have been delivered to the company, and the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 165, Article 176, Article 260, and paragraph 3 of Article 263 of the Company Act shall not apply.The provisions in the preceding two paragraphs shall apply mutatis mutandis to government bonds and other securities.
中文原文 證券交易法第43條
在證券交易所上市或證券商營業處所買賣之有價證券之給付或交割應以現款、現貨為之。
其交割期間及預繳買賣證據金數額，得由主管機關以命令定之。
證券集中保管事業保管之有價證券，其買賣之交割，得以帳簿劃撥方式為之；其作業辦法，由主管機關定之。
以證券集中保管事業保管之有價證券為設質標的者，其設質之交付，得以帳簿劃撥方式為之，並不適用民法第九百零八條之規定。
證券集中保管事業以混合保管方式保管之有價證券，由所有人按其送存之種類數量分別共有；領回時，並得以同種類、同數量之有價證券返還之。
證券集中保管事業為處理保管業務，得就保管之股票、公司債以該證券集中保管事業之名義登載於股票發行公司股東名簿或公司債存根簿。
證券集中保管事業於股票、公司債發行公司召開股東會、債權人會議，或決定分派股息及紅利或其他利益，或還本付息前，將所保管股票及公司債所有人之本名或名稱、住所或居所及所持有數額通知該股票及公司債之發行公司時，視為已記載於公司股東名簿、公司債存根簿或已將股票、公司債交存公司，不適用公司法第一百六十五條第一項、第一百七十六條、第二百六十條及第二百六十三條第三項之規定。
前二項規定於政府債券及其他有價證券準用之。
其交割期間及預繳買賣證據金數額，得由主管機關以命令定之。
證券集中保管事業保管之有價證券，其買賣之交割，得以帳簿劃撥方式為之；其作業辦法，由主管機關定之。
以證券集中保管事業保管之有價證券為設質標的者，其設質之交付，得以帳簿劃撥方式為之，並不適用民法第九百零八條之規定。
證券集中保管事業以混合保管方式保管之有價證券，由所有人按其送存之種類數量分別共有；領回時，並得以同種類、同數量之有價證券返還之。
證券集中保管事業為處理保管業務，得就保管之股票、公司債以該證券集中保管事業之名義登載於股票發行公司股東名簿或公司債存根簿。
證券集中保管事業於股票、公司債發行公司召開股東會、債權人會議，或決定分派股息及紅利或其他利益，或還本付息前，將所保管股票及公司債所有人之本名或名稱、住所或居所及所持有數額通知該股票及公司債之發行公司時，視為已記載於公司股東名簿、公司債存根簿或已將股票、公司債交存公司，不適用公司法第一百六十五條第一項、第一百七十六條、第二百六十條及第二百六十三條第三項之規定。
前二項規定於政府債券及其他有價證券準用之。