Schools shall operate in conjunction with local requirements, assist the provision of lifelong learning, and promote community development.

The income of public schools obtained by providing venues, facilities, and/or equipment for others to use or by commissioning use for business purposes, or encouraging non-government parties to take part in activities, is not subject to the provisions of Article 7 of the National Property Act pertaining to income being surrendered to the national treasury, or surrendering local public property management income to local government treasury agencies, and related directions.
When venues, facilities, and equipment are provided to others to use, as referred to in the preceding paragraph, schools shall give priority to their use for public welfare purposes, and their use by others is not permitted to affect their use by the school’s teachers and students.
If public schools that provide budget allocations for affiliated units, every income and expenditure item shall be handled using a special fund in accordance with the budgeting procedures of the Budget Act.

The competent authorities at each level may collect, process, or use the personal data of students, teaching staff, and other education personnel at the primary and junior high school education stage, and establish an associated database in order to understand and plan conditions affecting their students’ education, learning outcomes, teacher staffing, teacher appointments, and situations requiring teachers with special expertise; the special municipality or county（city）competent authorities shall transmit the contents of their databases to the central database in accordance with the directions of the central competent authority.

The enforcement rules for this Act shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.

This Act shall take effect from the date of promulgation, with the exception of the provisions of Article 45 and of Article 46, which shall take effect one year after the date of their promulgation, and with the exception of Chapter 9 for which the Executive Yuan shall set the date that it takes effect.