台湾法规/水利法

Article 3 The term “water resources” as referred herein shall mean utilization of artificial means or control of surface or ground waters for the purposes of flood control, tide water defense, irrigation, drainage, leaching of injurious salt, soil conservation, water reservation, silt dredge, water supply, pier construction, navigation, and water power development.

Article 4 The term “authority-in-charge” as referred herein shall mean the Ministry of Economic Affairs at the central level and local governments at the levels of province equivalent cities, hsien(county), and municipalities.

Article 5 The central authority-in-charge shall create water districts according to the country's watershed and submit the water district map to the Executive Yuan for approval and publication.

Article 6 Where a water district that extends over two or more provinces (province equivalent cities) or is of great interests to localities may present hardship in administration, the central authority-in-charge may establish a control agency to do the administering.

Article 7 Where a water district that extends over two or more hsien (municipalities) or is of great interests to hsien (municipalities) may present hardship in administration, the central authority-in-charge may establish a control agency to do the administering.

Article 8 Any water resources project undertaken by the province equivalent cities or hsien (municipalities) and having impacts on two or more province equivalent cities or hsien (municipalities) shall be approved by the central authority-in-charge.

Article 8- 1 Water from one water course may be drawn into another for the purpose of resource control for another, provided that approval first obtained from the central authority-in-charge.

Article 9 Change of water courses or digging of waterscape is subject to the approval of the central authority-in-charge.

Article 11 For undertaking any hydraulic engineering construction, the authority-in-charge of each level may recruit workmen from those who benefit from the construction, provided that a recruiting proposal has been submitted to its superior authority-in-charge for approval and to the central authority-in-charge for filing.

Article 12 The authority-in-charge may, taking into account the local needs, grant approval for organizing a farm irrigation association to undertake and develop farm irrigation work along with the policy laid down by the government.

The farm irrigation association referred in the preceding Paragraph shall be a public juristic person.

Article 13 When the government undertakes water resources projects, those who benefit from the work and pay for its costs and expenses may apply to the authority-in-charge to organize a water resources promotion association.

Article 14 Persons who take initiative to undertake water resources projects may organize a water resources corporation with the approval from the authority-in-charge.

Article 15 The term “water rights” as referred herein shall mean the rights to draw, use, or receive interests from surface or ground waters.

Article 16 Unless provided under Article 42 hereof, non-citizen of the Republic of China may acquire any water rights for the use of water; provided, however, the central authority-in-charge may apply for special approval from the Executive Yuan.

Article 16 Unless provided under Article 42 hereof, non-citizen of the Republic of China may acquire any water rights for the use of water; provided, however, the central authority-in-charge may apply for special approval from the Executive Yuan.

Article 17 Any entity, corporation, or person may acquire water rights for a specific purpose; however, the use of water shall be subject to the quantity limit of necessity.

6.Others.

The authority-in-charge may change the priority listed above in connection with a particular water course or an industrial zone designated by the government according to the actual circumstances after obtaining an approval from the central authority-in- charge.

Article 18- 1 The priority of water usage of multiple-goal reservoirs shall be set by the authority-in-charge according its approved plan, unless the right owners of a particular body of waters have agreed otherwise, provided that such an agreement has been submitted to and approved by the authority-in-charge.

Article 18- 1 The priority of water usage of multiple-goal reservoirs shall be set by the authority-in-charge according its approved plan, unless the right owners of a particular body of waters have agreed otherwise, provided that such an agreement has been submitted to and approved by the authority-in-charge.

Article 19 Under the circumstances that public use is under supply and new water sources are unavailable, the authority-in-charge may suspend or revoke the water rights granted except under Clause 1 of Paragraph one of the preceding Article, or impose restrictions on usage.

In the event that the suspension, revocation, or restriction of water rights under preceding Clause causes material damages to the user of the waters, the authority-in-charge shall measure and approve remedies for such damages and imposes the liabilities upon public water suppliers.

Article 20 When a conflict arises among registered water rights due to water under supply, the one who has a higher priority of usage shall have a preemptive use of water;