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Title: Commercial Group Act CH
Category: Ministry of the Interior(內政部)
Chapter 5 Commercial Associations
Article 55
County (city) commercial associations are organized by the following members:
1. County (city) commercial trade associations.
2. Licensed corporations and firms in the county (city) that have no county (city) commercial trade associations available to join in.
Article 56
Provincial Commercial associations are organized by the following members:
1. County (city) commercial associations.
2. Provincial leagues of all commercial trade associations.
Article 57
Commercial associations of municipality directly under central government are organized by the following members:
1. Commercial trade associations of municipality directly under central government.
2. Licensed corporations and firms in municipality directly under central government that have no commercial trade associations to join in.
Article 58
General Chamber of Commerce of R.O.C. are organized by the following members:
1. Provincial (municipal) commercial associations.
2. National commercial trade associations.
3. National leagues of commercial trade associations.
4. National leagues of trade associations of export trade.
5. Trade associations of export trade in municipality directly under central government without national leagues.
Article 59
The funds of commercial associations of all levels are as follows:
1. Membership dues paid by group members in proportion to their income of annual fee, ranging from one tenth to two tenths, which is to be stipulated in the relevant articles of association.
2. Annual fee paid by member corporations and firms no more than the minimum annual fee of group members is allowed, which is to be stipulated in the relevant articles of association.
Article 60
The number of attending representatives of commercial associations of all levels are stipulated as follows:
1. Group members send representatives to attend the meetings of commercial associations in proportion to expenses they bear, the specific criteria are to be stipulated in the relevant articles of association.
2. Member corporations and firms each send one representative who is the principal or manager of the corporation or firm, the number of directors or supervisors held by representatives of member corporation and firms should not exceed one third of the number of the directors and supervisors of the commercial association respectively.
Article 61
The directors and supervisors of commercial associations of all levels are to be elected from among the attending representatives in general meetings, boards of directors and boards of supervisors are to be organized, the number of directors and supervisors is stipulated as follows:
1. A county (city) commercial association should have no more than twenty-seven directors.
2. A provincial (municipal) commercial association should have no more than thirty-three directors.
3. The General Chamber of Commerce of the R.O.C. should have no more than fifty-one directors.
4. The number of directors should not exceed half of the number of the whole representatives.
5. The number of supervisors should not exceed one third of the number of the directors.
6. Alternate directors and supervisors should not exceed one third of the number of directors and supervisors respectively.
Standing directors and supervisors are to be elected when there are more than three directors or supervisors respectively in commercial group, the number of standing directors or standing supervisors should not exceed one third of the number of directors or supervisors respectively; a chairman of directors is to be elected from among the standing directors, the chairman of directors is to be elected from among the directors if no standing directors are available, a convener of the board of supervisors is to be elected from the standing supervisors when standing supervisors exceed three persons.
Article 62
In addition to prescriptions of this chapter, the relevant prescriptions in Chapter 2 also apply to commercial associations of all levels.