Financial Consumer Protection Act Article 30

A financial consumer may, within a peremptory period of 90 days, counting from the day on which the ombudsman case achieves a resolution, apply for the ombudsman body to send the ombudsman statement to a court for approval. Within five days of the aforementioned date on which the application is entertained, the ombudsman body shall send the ombudsman statement and the associated case files for approval by the district court with jurisdiction in the locality where the offices of the ombudsman body are located; however, prior to the sending to the court for approval, if the financial services enterprise has already implemented the contents of the decision, it will be exempted from the requirement to request court approval.Except where the circumstances contemplated in paragraph 3 exist, the court shall approve the ombudsman statement of the preceding paragraph. After granting approval, the court shall return the approved ombudsman statement and the associated ombudsman case files to the ombudsman body, and shall also have originals of the approved ombudsman statement served upon the parties to the dispute and upon their counsel.Where the court withholds approval because the content of the ombudsman statement violates laws or regulations, contravenes public order or good morals, or its compulsory enforcement is not possible for some other reason, then the court shall provide notice of its reasons to the ombudsman body and the parties to the dispute.An ombudsman statement that has been approved by a court in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2 shall have the same force as a final and irrevocable civil judgment, and the parties to the dispute shall not again in connection with the ombudsman case institute legal proceedings, nor shall it file a complaint or apply to institute an ombudsman case under this Act.Where there are legal grounds to consider a court-approved ombudsman statement invalid or voidable, a party to the dispute may file suit in the district court of jurisdiction to request that the ombudsman case be declared invalid or void.The situation contemplated in the preceding paragraph is subject mutatis mutandis to the provisions of Articles 500 to 502 and Article 506 of the Taiwan Code of Civil Procedure and Article 18, paragraph 2 of the Compulsory Execution Act.