A judge shall engage in on-the-job studies every year.
The Judicial Yuan shall provide budget every year to dispatch judges at all levels of courts for judicial studies or continued education domestically or overseas.

For every consecutive service of seven years, a tenured judge may submit a concrete research plan to the Judicial Yuan to apply for a one-year self-studies and receive full compensation during the period of studies. A research report shall be submitted to the Judicial Yuan for review after six months of the studies.
The number of self-studied personnel referred to in the preceding paragraph shall not exceed seven percent of the number of judges of that year at the respective agency, provided, however, that the number shall be rounded up to the next one if the number is less than one.

A tenured judge may, during the term of services, submit the certified admissions documents to the Judicial Yuan and request for a leave of absence without pay after being approved.
Unless otherwise approved by the Judicial Yuan, the duration for leave of absence without pay referred to in the preceding paragraph shall not exceed three years.

The Judicial Yuan shall promulgate regulations concerning the duration, qualifications, selection procedures, ratio for personnel chosen for continued education, and copyright of the research reports, among other related matters.

The leave for judges shall apply the relevant regulations concerning the leave of civil servants.
Unless otherwise provided by this Act, the leave of absence without pay for civil servants shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the judge's.