Article 14-1
Public places designated by the central competent health authority shall be installed with an automated external defibrillator (AED) or other necessary emergency rescue equipment.
After acquiring the equipment, the venue manager or legal entity in charge shall send it to the competent health authority to be recorded for future reference, and be registered in the medical and disaster command centers.
Regulations concerning the items, installation methods, management, usage training and other matters relating to the necessary emergency rescue equipment mentioned in the preceding two paragraphs shall be prescribed by the central competent health authority.
Public places that acquire the AED or other necessary emergency rescue equipment as mentioned in the first paragraph may be awarded funds or subsidized if required.

Article 14-2
Except for the rescue personnel, the indemnification clause for emergency evacuation in the Civil Code and Criminal Code shall apply to people using the emergency rescue equipment or performing first aid measures for saving others from immediate life-threatening danger.
The abovementioned provision is also applicable to rescue personnel who are off duty.

Article 3
Emergency medical services mentioned in this Act include the following matters:
1. On-site emergency rescue and medical treatment for injured or ill patients in emergencies, mass casualty events or in the wilderness areas;
2. Emergency rescue en route to hospital;
3. Referral of severely injured patients or critically ill patients on offshore islands or remote areas that are difficult to treat;
4. Emergency medical care at medical care institutions.

Article 5
In order to promote the balanced development of emergency medical services facilities and manpower, the central competent health authority shall, in collaboration with the central competent fire-fighting authority, demarcate the emergency medical services regions and formulate a national emergency medical services plan. Emergency medical services in the wilderness areas shall also be included in the plan.
The central competent health authority shall establish coordination and command systems in emergency medical services regions in order to integrate emergency medical service resources and consolidate emergency response mechanisms and shall announce statistical reports annually pertaining to the quality of emergency medical services.

Article 8
The central competent health authority may invite medical care institutions, representatives of organizations or government agencies, and experts and scholars for advice or review on the following matters:
1. Advice on the establishment of emergency medical services systems and demarcation of emergency medical services regions;
2. Advice on special emergency medical services in the event of chemical disasters, radiation disasters, burns, air rescues and emergency rescues in the wilderness areas;
3. Advice on first-aid education training and propagation;
4. Review of the hospital accreditation standards and reconsideration of accreditation decisions pursuant to Article 38;
5. Advice on other matters relating to the central or emergency medical services regions concerning emergency medical services.

Article 12
The medical and disaster command centers in the municipality or county (city) fire-fighting agencies shall be deployed with rescue personnel who are on shift duty round the clock to deal with the following emergency medical matters:
1. Establish emergency medical services information;
2. Provide emergency medical counseling for patients before arriving at a medical care institution;
3. Accept applications for emergency medical services
4. Supervise the medical care unit or fire department carrying out pre-hospital emergency medical care;
5. Contact medical care institutions for admission of patients in emergencies;
6. Contact agencies (institutions) equipped with medical transportation for carrying out emergency medical services;
7. Coordinate relevant agencies in carrying out emergency medical services;
8. In the case of medical services for patients in emergencies, mass casualty events or in the wilderness areas, dispatch ambulance and rescue personnel from local ambulance deployment agencies (institutions), and notify the municipality or county (city) competent health authorities.

Article 17
Ambulances shall be equipped with sirens, in-vehicle and external CCTV cameras and red flashlight, coated with white paint on the vehicle shell, painted with red crosses on both sides and the name of the agency (institution), and marked with license numbers at the rear. There shall be no other marks unless otherwise approved by the local municipality or county (city) competent health authority.
Outside of emergency situations, the abovementioned ambulance sirens and red flashlights shall not be turned on.

Article 22
The scope of medical services, necessary equipment, inspection and examination, application and dispatch procedures of medical services, stopping/landing spots and shuttle methods, qualifications and training of rescue personnel, number of on-duty personnel, making, preservation and inspection of roster records, and other matters to be complied with for emergency medical helicopters, emergency medical airplanes, emergency vessels and other emergency medical transportation vehicles besides ambulances shall be decided by the central competent health authority in collaboration with other agencies concerned.

Article 24
Rescue technicians are classified into junior, middle, and senior levels.
The eligibility for training, the training itself, continuing education, medical services allowed to be performed, obligatory cooperative measures, and other matters to be complied with for different levels of rescue technicians as prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be decided by the central competent health authority.
Courses of the abovementioned training shall include medical services and rescue training in the wilderness areas.

Article 25
The municipality and county (city) competent fire-fighting authorities shall appoint medical advisory physicians, including those with wilderness medical care expertise, and establish a medical advisory system for the following matters:
1. Emergency medical services education, training, supervision and assessment for rescue technicians at all levels;
2. Formulation of quality criteria for rescue technicians at all levels and execution of quality monitoring;
3. Approval of the rescue records made by senior rescue technicians for the emergency medical services, performed according to pre-established medical services procedures.
Regulations governing the qualifications, training and other relevant matters of the appointed medical advisory physicians as prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be decided by the central competent health authority in collaboration with the central competent fire-fighting authority.

Article 30
The municipality and county (city) health authorities shall formulate regulations governing emergency medical services for mass casualty events (including emergency medical services in the wilderness areas) and hold regular drills.
The drills as prescribed in the preceding paragraph may be co-held by fire-fighting agencies in collaboration with the local medical care institutions and ambulance deployment agencies (institutions).

Article 32
The municipality and county (city) governments, when facing mass casualties or wilderness emergency rescue tasks, shall establish on-site coordination and command systems and provide medical related services according to the scale and nature of the disaster and injuries.
When the emergency medical services for mass casualty events or in the wilderness areas as prescribed in the preceding paragraph involve military confidentiality, the military agencies shall be notified for further action.

Article33
In the event of mass casualty events or wilderness emergency rescues, the participating on-site rescue personnel and ambulance deployment agencies (institutions) shall carry out medical services according to the instructions of the on-site coordination and command system.