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National Conscription

I. National Conscription Organization

In order to carry out the enforcement of substitute services and to promote conscription reform,
the Ministry of the Interior (MOI), which administers the operations of conscription services in Taiwan,
established the National Conscription Agency (NCA) in 2002 in accordance with the Enforcement

Statute for Substitute Services and the Organizational Statute for Conscription Affairs Administration;
in addition, the Organization Act of the National Conscription Agency, MOI was also formulated with
support from the Executive Yuan and was implemented on September 1, 2013. The NCA consists of
five divisions: Recruitment, Selection, Administration, Interests, and Training along with four offices,

namely: Personnel, Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Civil Service Ethics and Secretarial.

II. Military Service System

In accordance with the Act of Military Service System of the Republic of China (ROC), the current

military service comprises both conscription of soldiers for compulsory military service and the re-
cruitment of soldiers for voluntary military service. The MOI presently utilizes a system of substitute
services while assuring that national defense needs and activities are not hindered in any manner.

III. Executive System and Responsibilities of Military Service

The Act of Military Service System demands that the military and the executive branch cooperate
as separate entities. With the executive system requirements in mind, the MOI has established the
NCA while the Taipei and Kaohsiung governments have also established their own Military Service

Offices, and various county/city governments have instituted and maintained their Military Service
Bureaus (Sections) to oversee the operations of sources of soldiers, conscripts and applications for
substitute services, assignment, management, rights and interests of draftees, and substitute services
reservists management. Based on the demands of the military, the Ministry of National Defense (MND)
has established the Department of Resources Planning, Office of the Deputy Chief of the General

Staff for Personnel, Armed Forces Reserve Command, District Reserve Commands, Special Municipal
and County/City Reserve Offices, as well as the Reserve Offices of Kinmen and Lienchiang County to
take charge of all matters concerning conscription quotas, education and training, rights and inter-

ests, drafting and mobilization, etc.

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