National property belonging to real estate shall be registered as national ownership under Civil Law and Land Law; those belonging to personal property, securities and rights shall be determined as national ownership under Civic Law and relevant special law.

Personal property, securities and rights which belong to the public use property, their ownership is determined by the administration authority; as for non-public use property, its ownership is determined by the National Property Administration.

Registration of the non-public use property, its administration authority is the National Property Administration.

The term “unregistered national land” under Article 19 of this law indicates the following national unregistered land under subparagraph 2 of Article 2 of this Act:
1. The tidal land.
2. The reclaimed gulf land.
3. The reclaimed river land.
4. Waste road, waste ditch, waste dike.
5. Other unregistered land.
The foregoing unregistered land, except that land of waste road, waste ditch, waste dike belongs to local government, the National Property Administration shall consult land office of municipality or county(city) to do cadastral survey firstly, then entrust land office to register national ownership.
Lands, mentioned in each subparagraph of paragraph 1, are invested and developed by local government, those land can be owned by local government after gaining the approval of the Executive Yuan.

The overseas national property is entrusted proper institutions to manage by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the procedure for determing its ownership shall be done by entrusted institution.