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Article 12
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A user applicant shall give due consideration to the accuracy of any trading information that it has independently processed for added value, and shall bear legal liability for any errors in its content.
Where trading information has been processed by a user applicant pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the page display shall conspicuously indicate the user applicant's name or a service mark identifying the user applicant, along with related footnotes; the user applicant shall bear legal liability for the page content.
When transmitting or broadcasting trading information, a user applicant shall have adequate software and hardware technology to prevent unauthorized use or plagiarism of the information, or connection to other systems.
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Article 16
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Given any of the following circumstances, a user applicant shall report to the TWSE:
- Any change of its representative, responsible person, contact person, agent, business address, telephone or fax number;
- Any change of the responsible person, address or contact telephone number for its equipment room; or
- Any instance where a bank has dishonored a check or refused a transaction of the company or its responsible person, or any other loss of creditworthiness.
- Any instance of a material adverse effect on the finances or operations of the company due to litigation, non-litigation, administrative disposition, administrative litigation, or the application for or execution of provisional attachment or provisional injunction involving the company or its responsible person.
- Other matters requiring report under the regulations of the TWSE.
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Article 17
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User applicants shall prepare and submit to the TWSE lists of the equipment to be used or of the channels through which trading information will be broadcast; any additions or changes to such information shall be reported to the TWSE not later than the fifth day of each month.
User applicants which transmit the trading information in the designated manner and have established files for the administration of their subscribers may be exempted from preparing and filing with the TWSE the list of information equipment in use as required by the provisions of Article 24, paragraph 2 of the these Regulations, and may further be exempted from submitting to the TWSE not later than the fifth day of each month the reports on new subscribers or changes in the subscriber list, provided that such user applicants shall make their subscriber administration files available at their head offices for audit by the TWSE.
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Article 18
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In order to administer the transmission and use of the trading information, the TWSE may appoint a representative or a certified public accountant to examine and audit the finances or operations and accounting books and records of a user applicant that are related to trading information. When deemed necessary, the TWSE may inspect the sites where the equipment is used and the status of its use; user applicants may not evade or refuse such inspections. When further understanding of a user applicant's revenue status is required due to a change in the method of calculating fees, the TWSE may consult the auditing reports issued by the user applicant's certified public accountant.
Where a user applicant calculates fees for the use of trading information based on the quantity of equipment or indexing time, the fees shall be listed independently on its accounting books with appropriate annotations.
Two duplicates of the user applicant's annual financial report duly audited and attested by a certified public accountant shall be submitted to the TWSE not later than June 30 of each year.
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Article 22
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A user applicant shall make available in each equipment room a list of equipment used there or of channels through which trading information is broadcast.
In order to facilitate inspection by the TWSE, transmission or broadcasting equipment installed in equipment rooms shall be conspicuously marked and segregated from equipment not used for transmitting or broadcasting trading information.
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Article 24
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A user applicant shall establish a comprehensive customer management system, and shall preserve the integrity of customer information.
A user applicant is required to make filings with the TWSE of the following user information on a regular basis:
- non-identifiable user information for display usages
- user information for non-display usages.
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