The National Communications Commission Organization Act Article 4

The NCC is to appoint seven Commissioners, which are of full-time positions and who shall be nominated by the Head of the Executive Yuan(Premier) and appointed at the consent of the Legislative Yuan. Commissioners shall serve a four-year term and may be re-appointed once to serve a consecutive term. Those who have been re-appointed shall not be re-appointed. However, following the first amendment of the act, among the Commissioners appointed for the first time, three are to serve a two-year term. The Head of the Executive Yuan (Premier) shall appoint one Commissioner to serve as Chairperson, and one as Vice Chairperson.The NCC Chairperson is of a special appointment and shall represent the Commission on all external affairs; the Vice Chairperson’s position shall commensurate to abridged appointment of position rank fourteen; the remaining Commissioners’ positions shall commensurate to abridged appointment of position rank thirteen.Commissioners shall possess professional knowledge or practical experience in telecommunications, information, broadcast, law or finance and so forth. The number of Commissioners with affiliation to the same political party may not exceed one-half of the total number of Commissioners.Effective following the first amendment of the Act, Commissioners, without differentiating terms, shall undergo nominations to appoint renew terms as per procedures stipulated in Paragraph 1, three months prior to the expiry of the said Commissioner's term. When the position of a commissioner becomes available, the term of office of his or her successor shall run until the date of the original term of office concludes. In the event where the Legislative Yuan should disagree with the nominations or the vacancy of the commission seats should fall short of the designated quota, the Head of the Executive Yuan (Premier) shall determine nominations within three months.The exercise of the consenting right, as stipulated in Paragraph 1, is to take effect on the date when the seventh term of the legislative council members take office at the Legislative Yuan.