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Chapter 3 Favors for Active Servicemen & their Dependants
Article 7
Any serviceman called or drafted during the mobilization period has any public/private debts or any pledged real estate incurred before the call or draft and fails to settle or redeem such debts or real estate upon the expiry of the legal term or that as contracted during his active service, one (1) year of grace may be allowed upon the completion of his military service if the legal term of service is not longer than one (1) year; or two (2) years of grace, if the legal term of service is longer than one (1) year.
Failure to settle or redeem as referred in the preceding paragraph shall be investigated and arbitrated by the local conscription association and referred to the local government for approval; if according to the creditor, such arbitration is not properly made, the creditor may request for an re-examination by presenting evidences.
Article 8
Should the serviceman as referred in the preceding Article 7 be killed in the battle field or dead from injuries or handicapped as a result of performing his official duties, he or his inheritor may settle the debts or redeem the rear estate within three (3) years upon the serviceman is killed or disabled.
Article 9
If any serviceman called or drafted during the mobilization period or his dependent has leased or pledged a certain farm land or house before the call or the draft, and it is proved that such farm land or house is the means necessarily for life maintenance or habitation and the legal term or that as contracted for the leased farm land or house is expired at a time the serviceman is still in service, the leaser or the pledger shall not terminate the contract or redeem the pledge.
Article 10
No creditor is permitted to claim for a compulsory exercise of any and all properties relied upon for life maintenance by the dependents of any active serviceman called or drafted during the mobilization period.
Article 11
If any serviceman before being called or drafted is a owner-farmer or has leased or held pledged land before he has been called or drafted to service, and his dependents are proved incapable of farming while the serviceman is in service, the serviceman may apply for support farming the public office according to the procedure to be set forth by MOI.
Article 12
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Article 13
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Article 14
If the serviceman before being called or drafted was an employed worker and the original employer upon seeking a substitute to fill the vacancy left by the serviceman shall have first offer to a competent member who is qualified for that job from the family of the serviceman.
Article 15
If the serviceman before being called or drafted was an employee to a government agency, public school and any entity of the public sector, the government agency, public school or the entity shall not suspend any and all dependent support allowance, ration of kind or money in lieu otherwise payable if the serviceman has not been called or drafted: Provided, however, that, the dependent support allowances should be suspended if the same is collected by the serviceman in the army.
In addition to collecting the ration of kind, any acting proxy shall be entitled to the dependent support allowances, ration of kind or money in lieu.
Article 16
An official leave shall be granted to any active serviceman for the purpose of participating National High Examination, National Ordinary Examination or Special Qualification Examination as long as such participation in the examination does not in any way interfere with the national defense and military needs. Should the date for any of such examination happens to fall on the same day of being called or drafted to report to the army, the date of report may be postponed accordingly.
Article 17
To pay tributes to any active serviceman who is decorated for outstanding performance in the operation, the local government and any academic institute related at where the native or temporary household registration is maintained shall separately give public recite to the serviceman.
Article 18
Should any active serviceman who is listed on the missing person or becomes a prison of war due to engage in combat or performing official duties whether he has been proved remaining loyal to the country or is a status pending clarification, the treatment for the dependents of the serviceman shall be prescribed by MOD.
Article 19
Any active serviceman may be offered at favored rates whenever riding a train, sea vessel, airplane, bus and other transportation means operated by the public agency according to the procedure to be set forth by Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC).
Article 20
Should the land leased or used for the construction of a residential house by an active serviceman and his dependents be related to public property, the serviceman may be entitled to a favored rate of lease during his term of service according to the procedure to be set forth by MOI.
The favored rate of lease described in the preceding paragraph shall be limited only to the house occupied by the dependants of the active serviceman.
Article 21
Any active serviceman may be entitled to a favored admission rate to public entertainment places including theater, cinema house, etc. pursuant to the procedure to be set forth by MOI jointly with MOD.
Article 22
If the family of any active serviceman is proved in poverty, his dependents may apply for smaller amount of loan with the government. An in-service financing funds shall be created and maintained by the government for the appropriation of the loan as referred in the preceding paragraph pursuant to the loan application procedure to be set forth by Executive Yuan.
Article 23
The dependents of an active serviceman may apply for a favored rate of the state-owned civil utilities necessarily for life maintenance of the residential house occupied by the dependents of the active serviceman by presenting the Dependent Ration Card according to the procedure to be set forth by Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) jointly with MOD.
Article 24
Dependents of active servicemen seeking medical care at a military hospital, public hospital and public service medical institute may be entitled to cost free or reduction according to the procedure to be set forth by MOI jointly with MOD.
Article 25
Any independent under age of 6 (included) or over 60 (included) of an active serviceman failing the support by the serviceman may be admitted on top priority to a public daily care institute, nursery home or asylum free of charge.
Article 26
Any child who attends junior high school or above of an active serviceman may be entitled to tuition exemption or reduction; the tuition to be exempted or reduced in case of the child attends a private school may be applied for subsides from the government according to the procedure to be set forth by Ministry of Education.
Article 27
Upon purchasing or collecting rationed goods of consumer necessities, the dependents of the active servicemen may be entitled with the first option.
Article 28
If any active serviceman and his dependents fail to afford holding marriage and/or funeral ceremonies, the local Public Office or the conscription association shall provide reasonable supports.
Article 29
If any dependent of the active serviceman is killed by the enemy during the war, the local government shall give a proper burial to the deceased and grant a reasonable sum of pension.