This Act is enacted pursuant to Article 46 of the Constitution and Paragraph 1 of Article 2 of the Additional Articles of the Constitution.
Election and recall of the president and vice president shall be governed by the provisions of this Act.

The election and recall of the president and vice president shall be implemented by way of a common, fair, direct, and secret vote, unless otherwise specified.

The electoral districts for the election of the president and vice president shall be the free area of the Republic of China.

The age and length of residence of voters and candidates shall be calculated up to the day before election day and shall be based on household registration data unless otherwise specified.
The length of residence specified in the preceding paragraph shall be calculated from the date of household registration.
In the case of a new vote, the calculation shall be made according to the original election day.

In this Act, the calculation of the periods designated for election and recall shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Code, unless otherwise specified. If the last day of such a period is Saturday, Sunday, a national holiday, or any other rest day, the period shall only be prolonged if government agencies stop working due to a natural disaster.
In this Act, a date that is a stipulated number of days before election day shall be calculated by starting on the day before election day and counting backwards the stipulated number of days; a date that is a stipulated number of days after election day shall be calculated by starting on the day after election day and counting forwards the stipulated number of days; the start date of a period that begins a stipulated number of days before election day shall be calculated by starting on the day before election day and counting backwards to one day before the stipulated number of days.
If election or recall applications are filed by mail with the government agency in charge of the election, the date of application shall be the date when the said government agency receives the application.

The day of the election or recall of the president and vice president shall be a holiday.