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Chapter IV - Encouragement and Punishment
Article 18
Encouragement given to refrigeration and air conditioning enterprises are as follows:
1. Public commendations.
2. Testimonials, medallions or professional medals.
Acts of refrigeration and air conditioning enterprises deserving the encouragement and the guidelines for encouragement shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.
Article 19
If an enterprise operates a refrigeration and air conditioning business or places advertisements to solicit refrigeration and air conditioning business without a registration certificate or when it is punished with suspension of refrigeration and air conditioning operations or after its registration certificate is rescinded, the enterprise shall be ordered to cease such operations and be fined not less than NT$30,000 but not more than NT$150,000 and may be fined successively on a daily basis if it continues its operations and does not do as ordered.
Article 20
In any of the following situations, a refrigeration and air conditioning enterprise shall be fined not less than NT$20,000 but not more than NT$100,000.
1. The refrigeration and air conditioning enterprise operates a refrigeration and air conditioning business without joining the refrigeration and air conditioning engineering industrial board of trade in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article 5.
2. The enterprise operates a refrigeration and air conditioning business without employing full-time engineers or full-time technicians in accordance with Article 9.
3. The enterprise fails to apply for renewal under Paragraph 2 of Article 10 or refuses, hampers or evades such renewal.
4. The enterprise suspends business, is punished with suspension of business, resumes operations or closes down its business without observing the provisions of Article 11.
An enterprise conforming to the conditions set forth in Item 1 or 2 of the preceding Paragraph may be ordered to suspend business or be given a time limit to complete the required procedures; if the enterprise fails to complete the procedures within the time limit and continues operations, it may be fined successively. An enterprise conforming to the conditions set forth in Item 3 of the preceding Paragraph and that is given a time limit by the competent authority to complete the required procedures, may be fined successively if it fails to do so within the time limit.
Article 21
A refrigeration and air conditioning enterprise in any of the following situations may be given a warning or be punished with suspension of business for not less than three months but not more than one year, depending on the circumstances:
1. The enterprise lends its refrigeration and air conditioning enterprise registration certificate to a third party for operating a refrigeration and air conditioning business.
2. The enterprise is convicted by a court of law for arbitrarily cutting back materials/labor or committing negligence, whereby a dangerous situation exists.
3. The responsible person of the enterprise is convicted by a court of law for illegally bidding for any engineering project.
4. The enterprise prohibits its full-time technicians from attending training or workshops on technical specifications notified by the central competent authority of such training or workshop.
5. The enterprise violates any other provisions of this Act.
If a refrigeration and air conditioning enterprise has been given three warnings, it shall be punished with suspension of business for not less than three months but not more than one year; if an enterprise has been punished with suspension of business for an accumulated period of three years within a five-year period, its registration certificate shall be rescinded.