This Act is duly codified to regulate the electronic game arcade businesses, and to safeguard social peace, good custom, public safety as well as physical and mental health of the people.

Governing authorities as stated in this Act refer to the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the central government, the centrally-governed city governments in centrally-governed cities, and the county (city) governments in counties (cities).

An electronic game arcade business as stated in this Act refers to a profit-seeking enterprise that places electronic game machines for education and entertainment of non-specified persons.

Electronic game machines as stated in this Act refer to amusement machinery that is controlled by use of electricity, electronics, computer, mechanics or other similar methods to generate or display sounds, lights, images, graphics or motions, or amusement machinery that controls injection of steel balls or steel sheets by the aforesaid methods, except for machinery not built in by images or graphics and solely provided for riding of children.
Electronic game machines set forth in the preceding Paragraph may not contain any design or device of gambling or offenses against morals, and are categorized as follows:
(1) Education category.
(2) Steel ball category.
(3) Entertainment category.
The categorization standard set forth in the preceding Paragraph shall be established by the central governing authority.

Operations of electronic game arcade businesses are rated as follows:
(1) General rate: It refers to operations only placing education-category electronic game machines for the entertainment of children, teenagers and the general public.
(2) Restricted rate: It refers to operations placing steel-ball-category or entertainment-category, or supplementally placing education-category electronic game machines solely for the entertainment of people over the age of eighteen.
An electronic game arcade business may not operate under mixed business rates in the same place of business.
The standard for determining the same place of business as stated in the preceding Paragraph shall be established by the central governing authority.