Administrative Regulations for the Establishment and Operation of a Telecommunications Network for the Academic and Education Purposes or Dedicated Experiments and Research and Development Purposes Article 40

The valid period of the license for the establishment and operation of network for a technical experiments and research and development telecommunications network shall not exceed one year.When there is still a need for conducting experiment, research and development after the term of validity of the license in the preceding paragraph expires, the applicant or administrator shall state reasons and submit an establishment proposal to the competent authority for reissue one month prior to the expiration date. Upon approval for the reissue, the competent authority shall issue a new license.In the preceding paragraph, should any of the following occur when applying for reissuing of the license for the establishment and operation of network, the competent authority shall reject the application:1. The applicant fails to present a license renewal application within the preceding paragraph’s specified period.2. The documentation for application is incomplete, and remains incomplete after being given a prescribed period of time to undertake corrective action.Regarding Paragraph 2, applying for renewal of the license for the establishment and operation of network shall be rejected, should any of the following circumstances occur:1. There are no newly added experimentation items and has been deemed unnecessary to extend the current experimentation items.2. Non-compliance with Paragraph 5.The term of validity of a renewed license for the establishment and operation of network in accordance with Paragraph 2 shall be calculated from the next day of expiration of the former one.