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Relevant Laws

Title:Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation Rules Governing Review of Securities Listings (2023.09.05)
Article 16     Where an issuing company other than a government-owned enterprise applies for the listing of its stock and, in the financial reports for the most recent two fiscal years, its operating revenue derived from construction business represents 20 percent or greater of its total operating revenue, or its gross profit derived from construction business represents 20 percent or greater of its gross profit, or its operating revenue or gross profit derived from construction business is more than the operating revenue or gross profit derived from other items of its business activities, it shall in addition to complying with the relevant provisions of these Rules, meet the following conditions:
  1. There shall have been 8 full fiscal years since its incorporation.
  2. The amount of its paid-in capital shall be NT$600 million or more at the time when it applies for listing.
  3. The total equity shown in the most recent financial report and in the financial report for the most recent fiscal year shall reach 30 percent or more of the total value of its assets.
  4. The combined net value of houses and land held for sale and investment property shown in the most recent financial report and for the most recent fiscal year shall not exceed 70 percent of its total equity. However, if the company has obtained the use license for less than one year, or the company has reclassified under investment property any construction project that it launched with respect to superficies it had obtained under an agreement stipulating that it may only be leased and not sold, or the lease-out rate of the investment property reaches 50 percent or higher, such portion need not be included in the calculation.
  5. Its profit before tax for each of the most recent three fiscal years shall be in positive figures, and it does not have accumulated deficit in the most recent three fiscal years.

  6. Where its profitability remains in compliance with the criteria for listing of its stock after the profit derived from each project as prescribed below is deducted according to the calculation of CPAs:
    1. Purchase or sale of completed or uncompleted construction projects by others (referring to those for which invested construction cost has reached 40 percent or more of total construction cost).
    2. Purchase or sale of bare-land or house units already built.
    3. Acquisition and subsequent sale of either land or house originally held by the opposite party/parties as co-contractor.
    4. Sale of house or land to related party.
Article 17     Where an issuing company referred to in the immediately preceding article other than a government-owned enterprise, in the past two fiscal years, contracted with any construction company with an annual contract sum in excess of NT$200 million, or the contract sum did not exceed NT$200 million but the construction company is a related party of the issuing company, then in each of the said two fiscal years the following provisions shall have been complied with:
  1. The construction company must be a Class A construction firm; its financial statements and gross profit gained from each individual project in the most recent two fiscal years shall each have been jointly audited and attested by two CPAs of an accounting firm.
  2. The gross profit for each individual project undertaken by the issuing company and construction company in the most recent two fiscal years does not show abnormal circumstances.
  3. The contracting process, formation of the contract price, and payment terms have been evaluated by a professional institution as reasonable.
  4. The construction company did not in the most recent two years materially violate any relevant building and construction laws and regulations, nor did the construction company materially breach any construction contract with a development company in the most recent two years.
  5. There has been no unusual or abnormal fund transmission between the issuing company and the construction company.
  6. There does not exist between the issuing company and the construction company any of the events set forth in Article 9, paragraph 1, subparagraph 2 hereof.

     If the issuing company and the construction company are not related parties, and a complete internal control system has been established, and the bidding procedures and payment method for contracting meet trade practices, the application of the provisions in subparagraphs 1 to 3 of the preceding paragraph may be excluded.