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Title: Land Act CH
Category: Ministry of the Interior(內政部)
Part II. Cadastration
Chapter I. General Provisions
Article 36
Unless cadastration has been already completed according to Act, it shall be carried out according to the provisions of this Act.
The procedure of cadastration shall be: cadastral survey and land registration.
Article 37
Land registration shall mean the registration of the ownership of, and other rights over, land and constructional improvements thereon.
Rules governing land registration such as those covering procedures, fees, data to file, documents to attach and dispute settlement shall be formulated by the Central Land Administration.
Article 37-1
The application for the registration of land may be assigned to registration agents by issuing a written assigning contract.
Registration agents shall pass a registration agents’ examination or verification. But those registration agents who had been conducting registration agency business before the revision of this Act, and had registered as qualified registration agents with certificates or registration cards given by the Government, may continue their business. Those registration agents who had no certificate or registration card, may continue their business until December 31 1995.
Land Offices shall not accept any application for registration from non-professional land registration agents who arbitrarily act as land registration agents.
Rules governing the commencement and nature of any business, and the responsibility, training, and management of any association, and encouragement, reward and discipline, shall be formulated by the Central Land Administration.
Article 38
Cadastral survey shall be undertaken before land registration. In localities where cadastral survey has been already completed according to Act, the general registration of land shall be immediately undertaken according to the provisions of this Act.
“The general registration of land” referred to in the preceding paragraph shall mean the registration, within a definite period of time, of all lands in a given Special Municipality or County (City).
Article 39
Land registration shall be carried out by the competent Special Municipal or County (City) Land Administration Agency, but the general registration of land and other related matters may, if necessary, be carried out by a land registry set up ad hoc in a Special Municipality or County (City) by the said Land Office.
Article 40
Cadastration shall be carried out with each Special Municipality or County (City) as an independent unit. Each Special Municipality or County (City) shall be divided into districts; each district into sections; and each section shall comprise a number of plots, to each of which a serial number shall be given.
Article 41
Lands pertaining to Type III and IV according to the classification of Article 2 of this Act shall be given no serial numbers and be exempted from registration.
Article 42
The general registration of land may be carried out by districts to be known as “registration districts”.
The registration districts referred to in the preceding paragraph shall not be smaller than an urban district in the case of the Special Municipality, or a Township (City), District in the case of County (City).
Article 43
Registration duly made according to this Act shall have conclusive validity.