Act Governing the Closure of Private Educational Institutions at Senior High School or Higher Level Article 14

When a school under special guidance is approved or ordered to stop all admission activities by the school’s competent authority, the school legal persons’s competent authority shall remove all the directors of the school legal persons from their offices at the same time and reorganize the board of directors. The number of full-time teachers or staff members, experts and scholars who serve as directors shall be no less than three quarters of all directors, and one third of them shall be preferentially undertaken by full-time teachers or staff members, notwithstanding any restriction stated in the school legal persons’s charter of endowment.The full-time teachers or staff members, experts and scholars who serve as directors as mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall not be the spouses, blood relatives or in-laws within third-degree affinity of the original chairperson, directors, or supervisors of the school legal persons. When the full-time teachers or staff members who serve as directors resign, their directorship may be replaced by experts or scholars, notwithstanding the restriction stated in the preceding paragraph.After the reorganization of the board of directors, the school legal persons’s competent authority shall designate a director to convene the board of directors’ meeting for selecting a chairperson of the board within one month, which should be reported to the school legal persons’s competent authority for approval.After closure of the school under special guidance, the office term of the directors mentioned in Paragraph 1 should end on the closure date if the school legal persons has prepared to set up another school or has another school in operation. Also, a meeting shall be held for electing the next term’s directors according to Article 21 of the Private School Law and the school legal persons’s charter of endowment.The additional directors and supervisor designated by the school legal persons’s competent authority as mentioned in Article 12 and Paragraph 1 herein shall maintain impartiality, and shall not have direct or indirect interest in the school legal persons. Regulations governing their qualifications, selection and appointment procedures, term of office, replacement, costs, duties, and other related matters shall be determined by the school legal persons’s competent authority.