Act Governing Retirement, Severance, and Bereavement Compensation Under the Individual Account System for the Teaching and Other Staff of Public Educational Institutions Article 25

If a staff member in any of the following circumstances applies for retirement or severance, the educational institution and the competent authority shall decline to process the application:1. While on unpaid leave. However, this restriction does not apply if the provisions of Article 20, Paragraph 2 are satisfied.2. During a period of administrative suspension or provisional removal from employment.3. During a period of disciplinary suspension.4. While the educational or the competent authority is processing or has processed their provisional removal from their appointment, dismissal from employment, or denial of renewed employment, in accordance with the law.5. The staff member is suspected of having committed a criminal offense against the internal or external security of the State after the end of the Period of National Mobilization for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion, and any of the following circumstances pertains:（1）A final conclusive judgment regarding the alleged offense has not yet been rendered.（2）A public prosecutor has ruled that the alleged offense is non-indictable or that indictment is deferred, but the ruling has not yet become final.（3）A public prosecutor has ruled that indictment for the alleged offense is deferred, and that ruling is final, but the deferral period has not yet expired.6. The staff member has been put on trial for having committed a criminal offense in breach of the provisions of the Anti-Corruption Act or the provisions of the Offenses of Malfeasance in Office chapter of the ROC Criminal Code, and has been sentenced by a court to imprisonment for a fixed-term or a more severe punishment, but the sentence has not yet become final.7. A case involving the staff member has been referred by the responsible authority in accordance with the law for disciplinary action or has been referred to the Control Yuan for review, or has resulted in a responsible authority giving a ruling imposing a disciplinary sanction that has not yet taken effect.8. When governed by special provisions of other legislation.A person referred to in Subparagraphs 4 to 8 of the preceding paragraph shall initially be suspended from duties or provisionally removed from employment from the latest possible date of effect of age-mandated retirement（hereunder abbreviated to “the mandatory retirement date”）. During the period of suspension or provisional removal from employment, the management and utilization of the cumulative total amount in the person’s individual account shall be handled by the management authority in accordance with the provisions of the latter part of Paragraph 4 of Article 29.Unless other special legal provisions apply, under the circumstances referred to in Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 2 or in the preceding paragraph a person maybe issued one-half of the base salary（based on seniority）that applies in the case of a person on administrative suspension or provisionally removed from employment, from the mandatory retirement date until the date the reason for the administrative suspension or provisional removal from employment ceases to exist.