To upgrade the engineering technological level and ensure sound development of professional engineering consulting firms, the competent authority may render awards and guidance to professional engineering consulting firms. The regulations for causes and methods of the awards, and measures of guidance shall be enacted by the competent authority.

A professional engineering consulting firm meeting any of the following facts shall be ordered for business shutdown and subject to a fine between not less than NT$500,000 and not more than NT$2,500,000 by the competent authority:
1.Violating Article 8, Paragraph 1 by rendering business operation without obtaining the registration certificate from the competent authority.
2. Violating provision set forth in Article 16.
3. Violating Article 18, Paragraph 2 by contracting projects during the suspension period.
In violation of Subparagraphs 2 or 3 of the preceding Paragraph, the competent authority shall abolish its permission and nullify its registration certificate and inform the competent authority in charge of incorporation registration to abolish its incorporation registration or the registration in part.

One who borrows, leases, fraudulently use, fakes or alters the registration certificate for professional engineering consulting firm shall be subject to a fine between not less than NT$500,000 and not more than NT$2,000,000.

Where a professional engineering consulting firm meets any of the following facts, the competent authority shall order that corrective action be completed within the specified time limit. In the event that the firm fails to complete the corrective action within the specified time limit or repeats the violation after corrective action, the firm shall be subject to a fine between not less than NT$100,000 and not more than NT$500,000. The competent authority may impose penalties successively for each violation and demand that the corrective action be completed within the specified time limit. In a gross violation, the competent authority may suspend the firm from business operation for a period between not less than one month and not more than one year:
1.Violating provisions set forth in Article 5.
2.Violating provisions set forth in Article 6.
3.Violating provisions set forth in Article 7.
4.Violating provisions set forth in Article 13.
5. Violating provisions set forth in Article 17.
6. Violating provisions set forth in Article 20, Paragraph 2.
7. Violating provisions set forth in Article 22 by refusing, impeding or evading the inspection.
The one who has been assigned by a professional engineering consulting firm to oversee the business operation shall be subject to the penalty as set forth in the preceding Paragraph if violating Article 17, Paragraph 3.
Where a professional engineering consulting firm meets any facts set forth in Paragraph 1 in gross offense, the competent authority may abolish its permission and nullify its registration certificate and inform the competent authority in charge of incorporation registration to abolish its incorporation registration or the registration in part.

Where a practicing professional engineer of a professional engineering consulting firm violates business related laws and regulations while rendering business operation, the practicing professional engineer shall be penalized in accordance with the laws and regulations concerned. Except for the situations below, the competent authority may impose upon the professional engineering consulting firm a fine between not less than NT$100,000 and not more than NT$500,000 and demand that the firm to oversee its practicing professional engineer to complete corrective action within the specified time limit. Should the practicing professional engineer fail to complete the corrective action within the specified time limit, the penalty may be imposed successively until the corrective action is satisfactorily completed:
1. Where the professional engineering consulting firm has tried by all available means to prevent the violation from occurring.
2. Where other laws and regulations concerned call for a stiffer penalty.

Where the National Commercial Trade Association or a local commercial trade association violates any situations set forth in Article 25, Paragraph 1, the competent authority in charge of the commercial group may impose a fine between not less than NT$100,000 and not more than NT$500,000.

Where a professional engineering consulting firm meets any of the following facts, the competent authority shall order that corrective action be completed within the specified time limit. In the event that the firm fails to complete the corrective action within the specified time limit or repeats the violation after the corrective action, the firm shall be subject to a fine between not less than NT$20,000 and not more than NT$100,000. The competent authority may impose penalties successively for each violation and demand that the corrective action be completed within the specified time limit. In a gross violation, the competent authority may impose a penalty of a warning:
1. Violating provisions set forth in Article 8, Paragraph 1 by rendering business operation without joining the association.
2. Where its practicing professional engineer(s) violate(s) Article 12.
3. Violating provisions set forth in Article 14, Paragraph 1 by failing to report to the competent authority for reference when its practicing professional engineer(s) quit(s) or receive(s) penalty for suspension from business; or violating Article 14, Paragraph 2 by failing to terminating the contract or commission the business for the business contract(s) having been accepted.
4. Violating provisions set forth in Article 15, Paragraph 1 by failing to apply to the competent authority for the permission for change of particulars specified in the firm’s registration certificate, director(s), or shareholder(s) in charge of business operation or representing the firm; or violating Article 15 , Paragraph 2 by failing to get the registration certificate replaced; or violating Article 15, Paragraph 3 by failing to apply for a change in the roster of the supervisor(s) or the practicing professional engineer(s).
5. Violating provisions set forth in Article 21.
6. Violating provisions set forth in Article 23.

Where a professional engineering consulting firm has received up to three warning penalties in accumulation within five years, the competent authority shall impose a penalty for suspension from business operation for a period between not less than three months and not more than one year. Where a professional engineering consulting firm has received up to three suspension penalties in accumulation within five years, the competent authority may abolish its permission and nullify its registration certificate and inform the competent authority in charge of incorporation registration to abolish its incorporation registration or the registration in part.

Where a professional engineering consulting firm receives a penalty from the competent authority by revoking or abolishing its permission and nullifying its registration certificate for professional engineering consulting firm, its directors, shareholders in charge of business operation or representing the firm, or the manager of a foreign firm’s branch in Taiwan shall not apply for incorporation of a professional engineering consulting firm in accordance with this Act within three years from the day next to revocation or abolition of the permission and nullification of the registration certificate.

Where a practicing professional engineer violates provisions set forth in Article 12, Article 13 or Article 17, Paragraph 2 and receives demand from the competent authority that the corrective action be completed within the specified time limit but fails to complete the corrective action within the specified time limit or repeats the violation after the corrective action, the competent authority shall, in addition to the penalty imposed upon the professional engineering consulting firm in accordance with this Chapter, refer the case in accordance with the Professional Engineers Act for disciplinary action.