Article 1
This Act is designated to create an open and transparent procedures for lobbying to prevent from tortuosity benefits feeding and assure the democratic participation. Article 2 The term lobbying mentioned in this Act refers to the behavior that lobbyist intends to affect the lobbied party or its agency about the formulation, enactment, modification or annulment of laws, government policies or legislation by any oral or written communication direction directly to the lobbied party or its designee. The term “lobbyist” used in this Act is as follows: 1.Individual, legal person, organization permitted to establishment or file for record or group consitituted by special purpose with representative. 2.Individual or profit corporation designated for lobbying. The term “lobbied party” mentioned in this Act refers as follows: 1.President, vice president. 2.Legislators of representative bodies at various levels. 3.The chief and deputy chief of special municipality, county/city and township / city. 4.Persons specified in paragraph 1 of article 2 of Political Appointees Pension Statues. Article 3 The Ministry of Interior is designated as the competent authorities of this Act. Article 4 The individual, legal person, organization permitted to establishment or file for record or group constituted by special purpose with representative proceeding lobby set forth in subparagraph 1 of paragraph 2 of article 2 shall not lobby about formulation, enactment, modification or annulment of laws, government policies or legislation without any involvement with them. The lobbyist designated for lobbying is subject to the individual qualifying in the professional and technical special examination and profit corporation with lobbying business written in its articles of incorporation. Article 5 This Act is unapplicable to following acts: 1.Civil servants who perform public duties according to laws 2.The personnel accredited or dispatched by foreign government of internal organization among governments who perform duties assigned 3.People or organizations address their opinion via application, petition, pleading and statement of opinion. Article 6 If the lobbyist is a legal person or organization, it shall chose representatives to engage in lobbying, and that the number of representatives shall not exceed ten persons. Article 7 Foreign governments, legal persons and organizations shall commission the ROC lobbyists to engage in lobbying. That foreign governments, legal persons, organizations and natural persons shall not lobby the matters for national defense, foreign affairs and Mainland affairs involved in national security or national secrets. Article 8 People, legal persons, organizations or other institutions from Mainland area shall not lobby in person or commission other lobbyist to do so; people, legal persons, organizations or other institutions from Hong Kong or Macau are also applicable. Article 9 During the process of lobbying, lobbyists shall not employ force, intimidation or other unjustifiable means, and shall not offer, promise or give a bribe or other improper benefit to a lobbied party. Article 10 Someone specified in paragraph 3 of article 2 shall not lobby to the organizations served by that person within five years before leaving office for himself/herself or on behalf of legal persons or organizations in three years after leaving office, and shall not commission other lobbyists to do so, however, these provisions shall be inapplicable to representatives at various levels. Article 11 Those who have one of the following conditions shall not be commissioned, or be assigned to serve as a lobbyist: 1. Where the person has committed the crime of insurrection or the crime relating to foreign regression after the period of suppressing communist rebellion and is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment which is not suspended. 2. Where the person has committed any crime prescribed in the Punishment of Corruption Act and is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment which is not suspended. 3. Where the person has committed any crime prescribed in the Organized Crime Prevention Act and is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment which is not suspended. 4. Where the person has committed a crime offense involving fraud, misappropriation or breach of trust under the Criminal Code and is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment which is not suspended. Article 12 Legislators of representative bodies at various levels shall not lobby for an enterprise run by themselves or related parties, or their total invested shares have exceeded 10%, and shall not commission other lobbyist to do so.