Telecommunications Management Act Article 42

To ensure national security and public order, the competent authority may designate the PSTN, in whole or in part, as the critical telecommunications infrastructure; the standards for the designation thereof shall be announced by the competent authority.The establisher of the critical telecommunications infrastructure as described in the preceding paragraph shall, before the deadline prescribed by the competent authority, draw up a critical telecommunications infrastructure protection plan. Said plan shall be evaluated by the competent authority before the implementation.With respect to the evaluation as described in the preceding paragraph, the competent authority may request the enterprise to make an improvement within a prescribed deadline if an improvement is necessary.With respect to the implementation of the protection plan as described in Paragraph 2, the competent authority may implement an audit on a regular or irregular basis. Where the status thereof fails to reach the protection plan as described in Paragraph 2, the competent authority may notify it to make an improvement within a prescribed deadline.Rules governing the format, items, evaluation procedures, evaluation standards and audit procedures of the protection plan as described in Paragraph 2 shall be promulgated by the competent authority.Where the critical telecommunications infrastructure will likely be infringed, the local government and police agency shall quickly take preventative or elimination measures according to the request of the establisher thereof.Critical telecommunications infrastructure shall be in compliance with technical specifications for info-communications security evaluation. Otherwise, the establisher thereof shall make an improvement before the deadline prescribed by the competent authority.The technical specifications as described in the preceding paragraph shall be announced by the competent authority.