Regulations on Central Government Personnel Quota Management Article 9

The agency shall not increase its annual budgetary personnel headcount if it falls under any of the following circumstances:1.Where it is not in response to the manpower needs of newly established agencies, the implementation of new major projects or duties approved by the first-level agencies.2.The originally allocated manpower may, after evaluation, be adjusted and utilized for the budgetary personnel headcount required by means of adjustment in the priority of existing duties, informatization, simplification of administrative procedures, de-tasking, localization, corporatization, or outsourcing, etc., of the agency.3.The manpower allocated in the previous stage can be circulated and utilized for the manpower needs of continuous mid and long-term duties.4.The total number of vacancies in the budgetary personnel headcount for staff, police, bailiffs, hired personnel and contract personnel in various agencies exceeds 5% of the total budgetary personnel headcount. However, the vacancy for the personnel in charge at the first-level unit and above and confidential personnel, as well as vacancies reserved in accordance with the laws and regulations, and vacancies to be filled by assigned and selected qualifiers through designated examinations, shall not be included in the foregoing total number of vacancies.5.For the vacancy in the budgetary personnel headcount designated by the agency that is to implement a hiring freeze, its staff, police, bailiffs, hired personnel and contract personnel may, after evaluation, be adjusted to support new duties.For the agency that increases the allocated budgetary personnel headcount due to the placement of the existing personnel of other agencies, it shall not be subject to the restrictions in the preceding paragraph; for such additional budgetary personnel headcounts, a hiring freeze shall be put into place.
中文原文 中央政府機關員額管理辦法第9條
各機關有下列各款情形之一者,不得增加年度預算員額:
一、非屬因應新設機關、執行各一級機關核定新增重大專案計畫或業務之人力需求。
二、所需預算員額,經檢討該機關現有業務優先緩急調整、資訊化、行政程序簡化、去任務化、地方化、法人化或委外化等方式,可由原配置人力調整運用。
三、具延續性中長程業務之人力需求,可循環運用前一階段已配置之人力。
四、各機關職員、警察、法警、聘用人員及約僱人員預算員額缺額總數逾其預算員額總數百分之五。
但一級單位主管以上人員、機要人員、依法規保留職缺、列管考試分發及遴補中之職缺,不計入上開缺額總數。
五、各機關列管出缺不補之職員、警察、法警、聘用人員及約僱人員預算員額,經檢討可調整支應新增業務者。
各機關因安置其他機關現有人員,而增加配置預算員額者,不受前項規定之限制;所增預算員額並應列管為出缺不補。

English translation for reference only; the Chinese text prevails. Not legal advice.