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Title:
Regulations Governing the Administration of Shareholder Services of Public Companies
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Amended Date:
2023.03.06
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Title:
Criteria Governing Handling of Stock Affairs by Public Companies(2003.10.30)
Date:
2022.03.04
2021.03.02
2015.12.21
2013.12.23
2013.04.11
2010.02.11
2009.11.20
2007.02.14
2005.12.15
2004.11.29
2003.10.30
2003.05.15
2002.10.07
Article 18
The names registered on the shareholders list, as applicable to natural persons, shall be based on the name shown on the National Identity Card, except in the case of overseas Chinese and foreign nationals who may supply the name shown on the alien resident certificate, passport or other documents evidencing identity; as applicable for juristic persons, the name registered on the shareholders list shall be their full registered name.
In handling matters in the preceding Paragraph regarding securities and securities represented by overseas depositary receipts that have been purchased by either overseas Chinese and foreign national outside the territory or securities investment trust fund enterprises; or overseas Chinese and foreign national desiring to convert overseas corporate bonds into stocks, or to redeem overseas depositary receipt into stocks, or have invested in overseas stocks, the shareholders registry of the company may be
registered under a specialized account name that can clearly identify the rights and obligations relating to the stock certificates.
A company with shares listed on the stock exchange or traded in the OTC market that issues employee stock option certificates to foreign nationals employed by an overseas subsidiary may, when foreign employees exercise the stock options and obtain certificates of payment for exercising stock options issued by the company or company stock certificates, transfer the certificates of payment for exercising the stock options or the company stock certificates directly into an investment account opened by its o
verseas subsidiary pursuant to the Regulations Governing Investment in Securities by Overseas Chinese and Foreign Nationals, and make the registration in the company’s roster of shareholders in the name of said account.
The registration referred to in the preceding paragraph may be itemized by the specific subsidiaries of the company whose shares are listed on the stock exchange or traded in the OTC market and by the year of issue and issue number.
If the company whose shares are listed on the stock exchange or traded in the OTC market, or foreign employees of an overseas subsidiary thereof, are unwilling to follow the procedures set forth in Paragraph 3, the foreign employees of the individual subsidiary shall themselves open investment accounts for such purpose.
A company shall not open two or more accounts for the same shareholder.