This Act is enacted to enhance the level of plant protection, strengthen plant health inspection and quarantine as well as management of high-risk agro-pesticide utilization, and to establish the system of professional plant doctor services.

The term "competent authority" in this Act shall refer to the Ministry of Agriculture at the central government level; the municipal government at the municipality level; and the county (city) government at the county (city) level.

A citizen of the Republic of China who passed the pertinent examination to obtain a plant doctor certificate in accordance with this Act may serve as a plant doctor.

When applying for a plant doctor certificate, applicant shall file an application with a proof of qualification and submitted to the central competent authority for approval and issuance.

Should any of the followings occur, such an involved person shall not qualify to serve as a plant doctor; if such a person already has served as a plant doctor, his/her plant doctor certificate shall be immediately revoked or terminated:
1.Under the provisions of the Professionals and Technologists Examinations Act, it has not been three years since the revocation of the passed examination eligibility.
2.A final judgment to imprisonment for one year or more without probation due to a criminal offense in relation to the performance of a plant doctor’s occupation, unless the sentence was fully served or pardoned before two years or more.
3.A revoked or terminated plant doctor certificate and the term of such termination has not yet been more than two years.

Without holding a plant doctor certificate, one may neither be designated the title of plant doctor, nor use a name which may mislead the public into believing that is a plant doctor.