一、 The regulation is enacted by Conscription Agency (hereinafter referred to as “the agency”) to exercise Article 17 and Article 18 of Archive Act related to the application for viewing, copying, duplicating and so on.
二、 The application for viewing, copying, duplicating or filming (hereinafter referred to as “viewing”) archives shall be submitted in writing to the agency in unit of a case or file; the department in charge shall announce the applicant if the application is not presented in writing.
三、 The department in charge shall review the qualification of Article 17 and Article 18 of Archive Act after accepting the application. If the archive is not allowed to be viewed under the law or the application is based on the other law, the applicant shall be announced the reason(s) in writing.
四、The result of the accepted application for archive viewing will be determined within 30 days of its receipt of the application whether it is approved or denied.
五、Once the accepted application is approved, the department in charge shall indicate the time, location and needed information for archive viewing on an approval notice and inform the applicant
六、The reference room staff shall collect and verify the approval notice and identification documents when the approved viewer visits the agency in person; the identification documents shall be returned after the archives viewing is done.
七、 The reference room staff shall guide and monitor the viewer while the archives are being viewed and some inappropriate behaviors such as eating, smoking, mussing, noising or so on shall be dissuaded and the archive viewing will be stopped and recorded if the viewer ignores the dissuasion.
八、The department staff in charge shall stay with the approved viewer while archives are being viewed.
九、If the following actions happen while an approved viewer is viewing archives, the reference room staff or the department staff in charge shall immediately stop the archive viewing. The archive viewing or duplicating will be suspended and recorded after the discontinuance is announced.
(一)Adding annotations, altering, changing, removing, marking or damaging the content of the archives.
(二)Unpicking the bound archives
(三)Destroying or altering the content of the archives by other methods.
十、The reference room staff or the department staff in charge shall announce all approved viewers that inks are not allowed to use while archives duplicating are proceeding.
十一、Access fees to view,copy or duplicate archives are applicable in accordance with”The Fee standards to View,Copy or Duptcate Archives” per National Archives Administration Decree.
十二、The particular stored data and files such as disk files or microfiche files are under this regulation as well
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