Act for Adjustment of Functions and Organizations of the Executive Yuan Article 2

Original agencies should be downsized, consolidated, resubordinated, restructured, and dissolved, or their functions should be adjusted or transferred to other agencies in accordance with the Basic Code Governing Central Administrative Agencies Organizations, the amendments to the Organizational Act of the Executive Yuan, and the review of agencies’ functions and duties.If the organic laws and regulations governing new ministries, committees, and subordinate administrative agencies (hereinafter referred to as the “new agencies”) at all levels that are established pursuant to the preceding paragraph have not yet been amended or formulated (stipulated), provisional organizational regulations and a personnel establishment table of organization of the new agencies should be stipulated, and the organic law and regulations governing the original agencies should not apply.If an agency’s functions has been adjusted and transferred to other agencies pursuant to Paragraph 1, the organic law and regulations governing the original agency should continue to apply, except for related administrative matters and staffing, which the Executive Yuan should issue executive orders to adjust them.If an agency originally subordinated to a central organs of government has been resubordinated, or its functions have been adjusted and transferred to any local governments, the competent agency should stipulate provisional organizational regulations and a personnel establishment table of organization, before the organic law and regulations governing the new agencies have been amended or formulated (stipulated).