Article 19
Any member of fishermen association has one of the following situations, except those stipulated in paragraph 2, shall be disaffiliated:
(1) Death.
(2) With one of the situations as referred to in sub-paragraph (1) to (3) of Article 17.
(3) Lost of nationality of the Republic of China.
(4) His/her household registration or vessel registration is changed to another district outside the district of the original fishermen association.
(5) Dismissal.
Any member of fishermen association who meets the following criteria which result in the change of household registration to another district outside the district of the original fishermen association as stipulated in sub-paragraph (4) of the preceding paragraph shall be deemed as not disaffiliated. Notwithstanding this provision, he/she whose household registration is changed again shall be disaffiliated in accordance with the preceding paragraph:
(1) A major plan approved by the Executive Yuan; and
(2) His/her original residence was demolished owing to expropriation and such case is identified by the Government.
The provisions stipulated in the preceding paragraph shall become effective as of September 22, 2005.
In case that a member of a fishermen association who had attained the membership of category A before November 12, 1998 and whose household registration had been changed to another district outside the district of the original fishermen association moved back to the district of the original fishermen association before November 12, 1998, and has continued engaging in the labor work of fisheries and has paid the annual membership dues annually shall be deemed as affliated again starting from the date he/she moved back.