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Title: Household Registration Act CH
Category: Ministry of the Interior(內政部)
Chapter 2. Categories of Registrations
Article 6
Any nationals under 12 years of age born in the ROC, shall be subject to birth registration; the same applies to abandoned or helpless children who have not yet applied for household registration.
Article 7
Any acknowledgment of parentage shall be subject to registration of parentage.
Article 8
Any adoption shall be subject to adoption registration.
Any termination of adoption shall be subject to adoption termination registration.
Article 9
Any marriage shall be subject to marriage registration.
Any divorce shall be subject to divorce registration.
Article 10
(Deleted)
Article 11
People who have no or are limited in capacity to make juridical acts when placed, selected, altered, considered, appointed, or delegated a legal guardian should conduct registration of legal guardianship.
Article 12
Developmentally disabled or mentally disabled people only partly able to show their intentions or people who have insufficient ability to recognize their intentions and been declared in need of assistance should conduct assistance registration.
Article 13
For the executing or exercising of the rights and obligations toward minor children, once parents mutually agree with it or are the court's final judgment, achieved mediation or settlement that they should be assisted by either or both parties, he/she or they should conduct Registration of the executing or exercising of the rights and obligations toward minor children.
Article 14
Any death or presunotion of death shall be subject to registration of death or presumption of death.
After the prosecutors office, military prosecutors office, or a medical institute has issued the autopsy certificate or death certificate, or the court has declared the death of the person in the final judgment, it is necessary to hand the certificate or declaration and purport of the decision to the competent authorities of the municipality and the county (city) where the domicile place is registered.
Regulations on the preceding procedure, duration, methods, and other items to be followed are as stipulated by the central competent authority.
Article 14-1
The acquisition, forfeiture, alteration, or recovery of Indigenous status and tribe should be filed for Indigenous status and tribe group.
The registration in the preceding Paragraph shall be processed in accordance with the Status Act For Indigenous People and its relevant laws and regulations.
Article 15
Those who do not have domestic household registration shall make initial household registration if they meet one of the following conditions:
1. An ROC citizen who enters the country and has been approved to reside domestically.
2. A foreign national or stateless person who has become naturalized or regained his/her ROC nationality and has been approved to reside domestically.
3. A citizen from Mainland China, Hong Kong, or Macau who has been approved to reside domestically.
4. Those born in the ROC are over 12 years of age, without birth registration, reside in the ROC legally, and have never departed from the country.
Article 16
Those who move out of the jurisdictional area (township, city, district) for over 3 months shall be subject to Moving-out Registration, except when movement is made owing to the requirements otherwise provided by laws, military service, schooling within the country, imprisonment, and dwelling in long-term care institutions or other similar premises.
When all household members move, missing persons with a case number compiled by police authorities, those in detention or who have left the country for less than two years shall be moved accordingly.
Those absent from ROC for 2 years and over shall be subject to Moving-out Registration. People meeting the following conditions do not apply to the above provisions:
1. A person stationed overseas by government order or the family of such person.
2. Working on an ROC oceangoing fishing ship.
An ROC national who departs from the country but enters with no ROC passport or other entrance documents. However he or she is in the country, is still considered to have left the ROC for 2 years and over and shall be subject to Moving-out Registration.
Article 17
Those who have moved in from other jurisdictional domiciliary areas (township, city, district) for 3 months or more shall be subject to Moving-in Registration.
A person having household registration initially, who moved out to a foreign country, enters ROC territory with an ROC passport or entrance documents, and stays for over three months shall apply for the Moving-in Registration. When the person having household registration is originally approved to have nationality restored, the above item shall be applied likewise.
Article 18
Any address alteration made within the same domiciliary area of jurisdiction (township, city, district) for over 3 months shall be subject to Address Alteration Registration.
Article 19
Household Separation (Combination) Registration should be made if a household at the same address wants to separate into two or more households, or multi-households in the same household address want to combine as a household.
Article 20
When an ROC national applies for Initial Household Registration, the place of birth shall meet one of the following conditions:
1. For the application for household registration, the place of birth shall be the province (municipality) or the county (city) where the national was born.
2. For an abandoned and helpless child whose birthplace is unknown, the place of birth shall be the place where he/she was found.
3. For a child born on a ship or an airplane so that the birthplace cannot be defined, the place of birth shall be the place of registration for such ship or airplane, ROC nationality, or port of registry.
4. If the person concerned was placed and educated at welfare institutes for children and youth, and the birthplace is unknown, the place of birth shall be where such institute is located.
5. If a child was born in a foreign country or area, the place of birth shall be the country or area to which the birthplace where he/she was born belongs.
6.As stipulated in Subparagraph 5, if the birthplace is unknown, the place of birth shall be the place where he/she resides.