Annotated Republic of China Laws/Central Regulation Standard Act/Article 8

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Central Regulation Standard Act Republic of China (Taiwan) Law Article 8

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First promulgated on 1970-08-31

Article 8

The code of a regulation shall be vertically written under the sequence of the articles with a heading of “Article X”, and one article may be divided into paragraph, subsection or item subsequently.　Paragraph shall be coded with two character spaces without a number as the heading.　 Subsection shall be coded with a heading of Chinese numbers.　Item shall be coded with a heading of Chinese numbers plus Chinese quotations.

Promulgated amendment on 2004-05-19

Article 8

The code of a regulation shall be written under the sequence of the articles with a heading of “Article X”, and one article may be divided into paragraph, subsection or item subsequently.　Paragraph shall be coded with two character spaces without a number as the heading.　 Subsection shall be coded with a heading of Chinese numbers.　Item shall be coded with a heading of Chinese numbers plus Chinese quotations.

While the item stipulated in the preceding paragraph is divided into more detailed catalogs, the heading shall be Arabian numbered and shall be cited as 1, 2, or 3 of the certain item.

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Taiwanese legal texts used to be vertically written. The 2004 amendment makes horizontal writing permissible with the second paragraph added.