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Title: Pharmacists Act CH
Category: Ministry of Health and Welfare(衛生福利部)
Chapter Five – Pharmacists’ Associations
Article 27
Pharmacists’ associations come into municipality and county (city) associations, and a national union of pharmacists' association may be established.
Article 28
Districts of pharmacists’ associations shall follow the currently valid administrative districts, and that only one association is allowed in each district, except associations had established before the adjusted, restructured or merged of the administrative regions.
Article 29
The municipality and county (city) pharmacists’ associations shall be initiated by more than nine pharmacists in the district of jurisdiction;
For less than nine pharmacists, the pharmacists may join the association in the adjacent district or jointly establish an association.
Article 30
(Deleted)
Article 31
The national union of pharmacists' association shall only be initiated upon over half of the municipality and county (city) associations are established.
Article 32
Pharmacist associations of each level shall be administered by the competent authorities of civil associations; their business activities shall be supervised and monitored by the competent authority.
Article 33
Directors and supervisors of the pharmacists’ associations at all levels shall be elected by the members (representatives of members) at members’ (representatives of members) assembly and Board of Directors and Board of Supervisors shall be respectively established. Their numbers shall be as follows:
1. The number of directors of municipality and county (city) pharmacists’ associations shall not exceed twenty-seven;
2. The number of directors of the national union of pharmacists' association shall not exceed thirty-five;
3. The number of directors of pharmacists’ associations at all levels shall not exceed half of the total number of members (representatives of members);
4. The number of supervisors of pharmacists’ associations at all levels shall not exceed one-third of the number of directors in the respective associations.
All pharmacists’ associations may establish alternate directors and alternate supervisors; the number of these alternates shall not exceed one-third of the number of directors or supervisors respectively in the associations.
When the quotas of directors and supervisors are both above three, the standing directors and standing supervisors may be elected from and by the directors and supervisors; the number of the standing directors and standing supervisors shall not exceed one-third of the numbers of directors and supervisors respectively and one president shall be elected from the standing directors by all the directors; the association without standing directors shall elect one chief director from the directors. For more than three standing supervisors, one convener of the Board of Supervisors shall be elected among them.
Article 34
The term of office of directors and supervisors shall be three years; and the number of those consecutively elected shall not exceed one-half; the president is limited to only one consecutive office term.
Article 34-1
The elected directors and supervisors of pharmacists’ associations at the higher level are not limited to the representatives of members designated by the pharmacists’ associations at the lower level.
The representatives of members designated by the pharmacists’ associations at the lower level for attending the pharmacists’ associations at the higher level are not limited to directors and supervisors.
Article 35
Pharmacists’ associations shall convene members’ assembly (representative of members) once a year; provisional meetings may be convened whenever necessary.
Where the number of members of a pharmacists’ association exceeds 300, pursuant to regulations of the Chapter of Association, members may be allocated by districts, and representatives of members may be elected in proportion to the number of members; assembly of representatives of members shall be convened to execute the duties of the members’ assembly.
Article 36
Pharmacists’ associations shall formulate s Chapter of the Association, registers of members, and rolls of brief resumes of the employees and submit those to the local competent authority of civil associations for registration, copies to the central and local competent authorities for reference.
Article 37
The Chapter of the Association for the pharmacists’ associations at all levels shall manifest the following items:
1. Title, region, and location of the association;
2. Missions, organization, tasks, or enterprises;
3. Membership participation and withdrawal;
4. Membership fees and the payment periods;
5. Formulation and office term for the representatives of members;
6. Quotas, designated powers, office terms, election, and discharge of directors and supervisors;
7. Rules governing members’ (representatives of members) assembly, and meetings of board of directors and board of supervisors;
8. Rules to be abided by members;
9. Budgets and accounting;
10. Amendment of the Chapter of Association;
11. Other necessary matters of the association to be manifested or handled according to law.
Article 38
Municipality and country (city) pharmacists’ associations are obliged to abide by the Chapter of Association and resolutions of the higher level pharmacists’ associations.
For violations of laws and orders, Chapters of Association, or Chapter of Association or resolutions of the higher level pharmacists’ associations committed by pharmacists’ associations at all levels, the competent authorities of civil associations may render the follows dispositions:
1. Demerit of warning;
2. Revocation of the resolution;
3. Discharge of the directors, supervisors;
4. Rectification under a deadline.
The dispositions of Subparagraph 1 and Subparagraph 2 in the preceding Paragraph may also be rendered by competent authorities.
Article 39
Members of pharmacists’ associations in violation of laws, orders, or Chapter of Association shall be disposed by the pharmacists’ associations according to the Chapter of Association and resolutions rendered by board of directors, board of supervisors, or members’ (representatives of members) assembly.