# Annotated Republic of China Laws/Enforcement Act of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code/1999

| ←1930 | Enforcement Act of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code Republic of China (Taiwan) Law 1999 |

## Article 2 (1999-04-21)

* Before the coming into force of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code, if according to the provisions of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code, the extinctive prescription has already completed, or the remainder of the period of prescription is less than one year, the claim may be made within one year from the date of its coming into force.　Except when the period, beginning from the completion of the prescription to the coming into force of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code, exceeds half of the period of prescription as provided by the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code.
* If according to the provisions of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code, the extinctive prescription is less than one year, and if it has not yet completed before the coming into force of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code, the prescription is reckoned from the date of its coming into force.

## Article 3 (1999-04-21)

* If the statutory extinctive prescription has already completed before the coming into fore of the revision of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code, the prescription has completed.
* If the period of a statutory extinctive prescription before the coming into fore of the revision of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code is longer than that provided by the revision of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code, the provisions before the revision shall be applied.　However, if the remainder of the period of prescription reckoned form the date of the coming into force of the revision of Part of Obligations of the Civil Code is longer than that provided by the revision of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code, the provisions provided by the revision of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code shall be applied from the date of the coming into force of the revision.

## Article 14 (1999-04-21)

* The provisions of the first or the second paragraph of Articles 217 and Article 218 of the Civil Code shall also apply mutatis mutandis to obligations to make compensation for the injury done before the coming into force of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code.
* The provisions of the revised third paragraph of Article 217 of the Civil Code shall also apply to the situation when the agent of the injured person or the person performing the obligation for the injured person has negligently contributed to the injury before the coming into force of the revision of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code.

## Article 16 (1999-04-21)

* When an obligation occurred before the coming into force of the Part of Obligations of Civil Code is not performed after its coming into force, the debtor is responsible for the non-performance in accordance with the provisions of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code.
* The provision of the preceding paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis to the situation when the creditor refuses to or fails to accept the performance.

## Article 20 (1999-04-21)

* The provisions of Article 318 of the Civil Code shall apply to the obligations assumed before the coming into force of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code.
* The provision of the revised second paragraph of Article 318 of the Civil Code shall also apply to the obligations assumed before the coming into force of the revision of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code.

## Article 24 (1999-04-21)

* The validity of a lease contract which was made before the coming into force of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code.
* If the period of the lease mentioned in the preceding paragraph is fixed in the contract, such period shall be followed.　But if the remainder of the period, reckoning from the date of the coming into force of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code is longer than that provided by Article 449 of the Civil Code, the provisions of Article 449 of the Civil Code shall be applied as from the date of their coming force.

## Article 36 (later amended)
# Annotated by Wikibooks

* ↑ "Enforcement Act of the Part of Obligations of the Civil Code: Article Content". Laws & Regulations Database of The Republic of China. Ministry of Justice (Taiwan). 2009-12-30. Retrieved 2016-09-24.