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MOI 2O18 OUTLINE OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR
REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN)

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 service 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;
"National Conscription Agency Organization Legislation" was also established with support from
the Executive Yuan and implemented on September 1, 2013. The NCA consists of five divisions:

Administration, Interests, Recruitment, Selection, and Training along with the four offices of Personnel,
Budget, Accounting & Statistics, Civil Service Ethics and Secretarial.

II. Military Service System

According to the Act of Military Service System of the Republic of China (ROC), the current military
service comprises both the conscript soldiers for compulsory military service and the recruiting soldiers
for voluntary military service. The MOI presently utilizes the 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 the 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
special municipality governments have also established their Military Service Offices, and various county/
city governments have instituted and maintain a Military Service Bureau (Section) to oversee the operation
of sources of soldiers, conscripts, and applications for substitute services, assignment, management, rights
and interests of draftees, substitute services reservists management; based on the demands of the military,
the Ministry of National Defense (MND) has established a 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 interests, drafting and mobilization, etc.

IV. Military Service Operations

Pursuant to the Constitution of the ROC and the Act of the Military Service System, the male
citizens of the ROC are obligated to perform military service.

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