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Article 9
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Notwithstanding the fact that an issuing company applying for the listing of its stock meets the listing criteria set forth in these Rules, the TWSE may disagree to its listing if the issuing company has any of the events listed below, except for any of those in subparagraphs 8, 9, or 10 under which the TWSE shall disagree to its listing, and is deemed by the TWSE to be inappropriate for listing:
- It has any of the events set forth in Article 156, paragraph 1, subparagraphs 1 and 2 of the Securities and Exchange Act, or has made misrepresentation or false statement or conducted unlawful activities that may affect the price of its securities after listing thereof, and will cause fear that the market order may be affected or the public interests may be harmed.
- Its financial or business affairs are not independent from other person(s).
- It has had any material labor dispute or environmental pollution sufficient to affect its normal financial and business operations, and has not made improvement.
- It has been discovered any material non-arms-length transaction and has not made improvement.
- After the capital increase through a new share issue which has been effected or is being effected in the year in which it applies for listing is included in the amount of paid-in capital in its final account for the respective year, it does not meet the listing criteria.
- It has failed to effectively implement its written accounting system, internal control system, or internal audit system, or has failed to prepare financial reports in accordance with relevant laws and regulations and generally accepted accounting principles, and the event of this failure is considered as material.
- There has been serious deterioration in its business operation.
- Where the applicant company conducted any activities in violation of the principle of good faith in the most recent five years, or where its directors, general manager or de facto responsible person violated the same principle in the most recent three years.
- If an applicant company has less than five directors or same-sex directors on its board of directors, or its independent directors number less than three persons or less than one-third of the number of directors; or if any of its board of directors are unable to independently exercise their functions; or if it has not appointed the remuneration committee pursuant to Article 14-6 of the Securities and Exchange Act and related provisions. Additionally, among the elected independent directors, at least one of them must be a professional in accounting or finance.
- Where the applicant company has been registered for trading as an emerging stock on the TPEx in the fiscal year of the listing application and the most recent fiscal year thereto, and there has been, from the TPEx registration date onward, any trading of stock issued by the applicant company by any incumbent director, or shareholder holding 10 percent or greater of its total issued shares other than on the emerging stock market; provided, this restriction shall not apply where such trading is for purposes of underwriting under Article 11 of these Rules or for other legitimate reason.
- Where the shares of the applicant company are held by a TWSE (or TPEx) listed company and TPExmeet any of the following conditions, and any equity transfer conducted by the TWSE (or TPEx) listed company during the most recent three years for purposes of reducing its shareholding ratio in the applicant company has not been conducted in a manner giving pre-emptive subscription rights to the existing shareholders, or in other manner not detrimental to the rights and interests of the shareholders of the TWSE (or TPEx) listed company:
- The applicant company is the existing or newly established company being transferred business or assets due to a demerger of the TWSE (or TPEx) listed company.
- The applicant company is a subsidiary of the TWSE (or TPEx) listed company, and during the three-year period before the application for TWSE listing, the TWSE (or TPEx) listed company has cumulatively reduced its direct or indirect shareholding in the applicant company by 20 percent or more.
- Where the listing is considered by the TWSE as inappropriate due to its scope of business, nature or special circumstances.
Subparagraph 2 of the immediately preceding paragraph shall not apply to companies applying for listing which are government-owned enterprises.
The ending date of the applicable periods referred to in various subparagraphs of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be the day immediately before the date on which the Agreement for Listing takes effect.
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Article 16
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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:
- There shall have been 8 full fiscal years since its incorporation.
- The amount of its paid-in capital shall be NT$600 million or more at the time when it applies for listing.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- 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).
- Purchase or sale of bare-land or house units already built.
- Acquisition and subsequent sale of either land or house originally held by the opposite party/parties as co-contractor.
- Sale of house or land to related party.
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