Article 3
The types of substitute service referred to in Subparagraph 1, Paragraph 1, Article 4 of the Act include assignments with the following duties:
1. Police service: to serve in the mobile security police force, community watch and patrol, traffic control assistance, duties at corrective agency, as a guard at a sanctuary, and other safety maintenance and related support services.
2. Fire service: to serve in disaster prevention, hazard salvation, rescue of the injured and the sick and related support services.
3. Social service: to take care of children and youth, the elderly and the injured, sick veterans and the mentally and physically handicapped, to assist in promoting social insurance, social remedies, welfare services, nation-wide job placement, national health insurance, management of mortuary services, and other social welfare and related support services.
4. Environmental service: to serve in environmental inspection, examination, recycling of resources, environmental cleaning and maintenance, detection of radiation affected buildings, buildings control, rivers control, water resources control, conservation of water collection areas, geological survey, to assist in meteorological observation and related support services.
5. Medical service: to undertake medical and health care services in mountainous areas, outlaying islands, remote areas, foreign countries and regions lacking medical resources and related health care and medical units, to take up epidemic prevention, inspection, management of public health care and related support services.
6. Educational service: to undertake teaching work in national elementary and junior high schools in mountainous areas, outlaying islands, remote areas, teacher-deficient regions, to take up the special education and overseas assistant teaching work, and to assist in campus security, counseling of drop-out students, and other education-related support services.
7. Agricultural service: to undertake resources surveys concerning fishery, plants, forestry, soil and agriculture, to provide guided tour service in forest recreational parks, to serve in agricultural construction, agricultural testing and inspection, guided tour service for exhibitions of agricultural resources, conservation of slopes, animals and plants, the animal and plant health inspection and quarantine, and other agriculture-related support services.
8. Tribal Service for the Indigenous Peoples: engaging in national education culture and language preservation development, tribal economic and industrial development, tribal health care, employment services, social welfare services, development of Aboriginal Communities in metropolitan area, and operation management of Indigenous Peoples cultural center (museum), business related to aborigines and other auxiliary services.
9. Other services designated by the Executive Yuan: the duties to be drafted by the requisition agency, reported to the competent authority, and referred to the Executive Yuan for review and approval.
The requisition agencies shall state clearly the specific tasks and work content required of the above-mentioned support services in accordance with the provisions regulating the general substitute service draftees’work.
The competent authority may select relevant male citizens in the Substitute Services from the Substitute Service categories prescribed in the subparagraphs of Paragraph 1 for the need of auxiliary manpower required for the basic training of the Substitute Services; of which the specific project and content of the auxiliary duties shall be provided by the Substitute Service basic training agencies.