Citizens between 6 and 15 years of age shall receive primary and junior high school education; citizen’s compulsory enrolment is governed by separate legislation.

Primary and junior high school education is divided into two stages: six years of primary school education, followed by three years of junior high school education.

In principle, primary and junior high school education is provided by the government, but the private sector is also encouraged to engage in providing such education.

To safeguard students’ right to learn and the right of parents to choose the kind of education their children receive, at the primary and junior high school stages of education, school-based experimental education shall be available, conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Enforcement Act for School-Based Experimental Education; non-school-based experimental education shall be available, conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Enforcement Act for Non-school-based Experimental Education at Senior High School Level or Below.
To assist the development of the experimental education referred to in the preceding paragraph, the central competent authority shall formulate directions governing associated subsidies.
It is not permitted to consider the short-term tutorial education referred to in the Supplementary Education Act to be a form of the “non-school-based experimental education” referred to in Paragraph 1.

Acquiring the land required to build schools required for primary and junior high school education, taking into consideration urban planning and community development requirements, shall be given planning priority by the special municipality and county（city）competent authorities. The competent authority responsible for approving the establishment of public primary and junior high schools（hereunder abbreviated to “schools”）may appropriate or expropriate land to do so in accordance with the law.

The funds required by any special municipality or county（city）competent authority to implement primary and junior high school education shall take priority in budget allocations. Their sources of finance are as follows:
1. The special municipality or county（city）competent authority’s general revenue.
2. Funds allocated to special municipality and county（city）competent authorities in accordance with the provisions of the Equalization of Land Rights Act.
3. To ensure the sound development of primary and junior high school education, in accordance with the provisions of the proviso in Paragraph 1, Article 18 of the Act Governing the Allocation of Government Revenues and Expenditures, special municipality and county（city）competent authorities may give priority to raising the funds necessary to implement primary and junior high school education.
The central competent authority shall provide subsidies for special municipality and county（city）competent authorities to implement primary and junior high school education, based on their actual needs.

The competent authorities at all levels may assign public school teachers to form professional, autonomous curriculum and teaching guidance groups of a working group nature; the tasks of these groups are:
1. To assist in spreading information about and the implementation of curriculum and teaching related policies.
2. Overall planning to set up guidance resources for their respective learning areas and topics, which becomes an effective system to support teachers’ teaching and professional development.
3. To assist schools with curriculum development, provide teachers with curriculum and teaching consultations and guidance, in order to implement national education.
4. To research and develop innovative teaching methods, assist teachers to actively conduct research on teaching, and improve teaching effectiveness.
The competent authorities at all levels may assign public school teachers to form working groups to promote student guidance and counseling, technology education and information technology education, special education, education for indigenous peoples, and other related education matters.
The regulations governing the working groups referred to in the preceding two paragraphs, their organization, and operations, and the qualifications, selection, assignment, and training of the teachers involved, incentive awards, and calculation of years of service for the teachers involved, and other related matters shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.