The Hsiang (township, city, district) government shall immediately launch the preliminary review upon receipt of an application for Substitute Services on expertise, voluntary and general qualifications. It shall advise the applicant to complete corrective action before the deadline for application in the event that the expertise licenses or supporting certificates are found nonconforming or erroneous; and shall, if those papers prove to have lived up to requirements, work out the roster and statistics and submit them along with the expertise licenses or supporting certificates in Xerox copies to the municipal, county (city) government within two (2) days from the deadline of application.

The municipal, county (city) government shall conduct recheck immediately upon receipt of the application cases mentioned in the preceding article and shall act according to the following:
1. Application on expertise qualifications: Assemble the cases on the grounds of the categories of services, education and expertise and submit them to the competent authorities.
2. Application on voluntary qualifications: Submit the cases to the competent authorities on the grounds of the categories of services and education.
3. Application on general qualifications: Conduct statistics and report the total number of cases to the competent authorities and approve of the applications if the number of applications falls within the quota granted by the competent authorities in response; and determine the results through lot-drawing in consolidation with the lot-drawing for regular servicemen if the number of applications goes beyond the quota.

The competent authorities shall manage the applications in the following manners after receipt of the submittals in accordance with the preceding article:
1. Application on expertise qualifications:
(1) The applicants having satisfactorily passed state-sponsored examinations and been satisfactory with the licenses/certificates in expertise in the categories set forth in Paragraph 1 of Article 4 will be preferentially reviewed. Approve of the application in concert with the user organizations straight if the qualified applicants are not beyond the approved quota and grant the quota to applicants through lot-drawing if beyond the quota.
(2) In case of a balance of the approved quota after deducting the successful applicants having satisfactorily passed state-sponsored examinations with satisfactory licenses/certificates for expertise, the applicants having satisfactorily passed the examinations under the auspices of the competent authorities in charge of target business with the licenses/certificates in expertise in the categories set forth in Paragraph 1 of Article 4 will be preferentially reviewed. Approve of the application in concert with the user organizations straight if the qualified applicants are not beyond the approved quota and grant the quota to applicants through lot-drawing if beyond the quota.
(3) In case of a balance of the approved quota after deducting the two preceding paragraphs, i.e., the successful applicants having satisfactorily passed state-sponsored examinations with satisfactory licenses/certificates for expertise and the applicants having satisfactorily passed the examinations under the auspices of the competent authorities in charge of target business with the licenses/certificates in expertise, the applicants possessing the education and professional qualifications as well as expertise training required by the user organizations will be preferentially reviewed. Approve of the application in concert with the user organizations straight if the qualified applicants are not beyond the approved quota and grant the quota to applicants through lot-drawing if beyond the quota.
2. Application on voluntary qualifications: Approve of the application in concert with the user organizations straight if the applicants in various categories are not beyond the balance of the approved quota after deducting the applicants successfully granted for various categories of expertise and grant the quota to applicants through lot-drawing if beyond the balance.
3. Application on general qualifications: The total balance of the approved quota after deducting the applicants successfully granted for various categories of expertise and the applicants successfully granted on voluntary qualifications shall be allocated to the municipalities, counties (cities) on the grounds of the total number of applications of general qualifications submitted by various municipal, county (city) governments.
The aforementioned lot-drawing shall be conducted by the competent authorities in concert with the user organizations and the municipal, county (city) governments.