The special municipality or the county (city) competent authority shall voluntarily extract the readjustment area in its jurisdiction, hand out the Farmland Readjustment Proposal and its cadastral map, and apply to the higher competent authority for the approval of implementing farmland readjustment under the circumstances as follows.
1. The arable land not suitable for farming, irrigation, and drainage.
2. The arable land not suitable for expanding or for mechanizing.
3. The area lack of the roadways and the drains not suitable for farming.
4. The area being established the new irrigation and drainage system.
5. The farmland suffered by the vital disaster like flood, landslides…etc.
6. The farmland being developed or improved.
The extraction of the readjustment area, fulfilled with the goals of agricultural development plan and county community construction, shall not be restricted to the administrative boundary.

The special municipality or the county (city) competent authority should announce the Farmland Readjustment Proposal proved by higher authority at local government organization for thirty days, then implement the proposal.
While more than one half of the landowners who hold more than one half lands in the readjustment area oppose the proposal during the course of the public announcement, the competent authority should mediate the oppositions and revise Farmland Readjustment Proposal. The reauthorization of the arrangements of farmland readjustment should be implemented after public announcement.

When more than one half of the landowners who hold more than one half lands in the readjustment area in accordance with article 6, the special municipality or the county (city) competent authority shall apply to the higher authorities for approval of the arrangements of farmland readjustment in priority.

During the course of public announcement of Farmland Rreadjustment Proposal, the special municipality or the county (city) competent authority shall announce publicly in the meantime of prohibiting land modification activities such as the built improvements construction, new development, stone quarrying, or changing topography in the readjustment area. The course of prohibition shall not last more than eighteen months.

The Central Competent Authority shall formulate guidelines with reward to the landowner who is voluntarily transacting to improve the land use and broaden the arrangements of farmland readjustment. The arrangements of commendation are applied to Article 58 of The Equalization of Land Rights Act.
The voluntary transaction in the preceding paragraph is contented with two thirds of landowners who hold more than two thirds of lands in the readjustment area, and is approved by the special municipality or the county (city) competent authority.