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and Fence Criminals Act violates the principle
“indigenous” status depended on registration
Constitution and contravenes the intent that
rather that it depended on the two cumulative
of proportionality prescribed in Article 23 of the
“personal freedom shall be guaranteed to the
people” stipulated in Article 8 of the Constitution.
The limitation of a criminal’s personal freedom
as stipulated in Article 3, paragraph 3 of the
Organized Crime Prevention Act also violates
the principles of constitutional proportionality
and significant distinction as well as article 8 of
the Constitution according to which “personal
freedom shall be guaranteed to the people”.
These conclusions largely coincide with our
interpretation.
b. The Indigenous Peoples Status of Children
of Intermarriage Between Indigenous
and Non-indigenous Peoples Case (TCC
Judgment 111-Hsien-Pan-4, 2022)
This case concerns the difficulties children born
from a marriage between an indigenous person
and a non-indigenous person face in acquiring
recognition as “indigenous people”. The case
aims to discuss the provisions set out in Article
4, paragraph 2 of the Status Act for Indigenous
Peoples (SAIP), which prescribe that, in order to
acquire recognition as an indigenous person, a
child must inherit either their father’s or mother’s
surname or their traditional indigenous name.
criteria of heredity (jus sanguinis) and self-
acknoweldgment. Determining the concrete
implications of these principles should be
the task of legislators, who may also take
into account the transmission of indigenous
languages and cultures, as well as the national
resources available.
ii. Legislators naturally have room for deliberation
in the task of drawing up the law, whilst given
the principle of separation of powers, judicial
bodies and executive agencies must ensure
they respect this. Thus, as applied to the
above case, it is unlikely that SAIP Article 4
paragraph 2 is unconstitutional.
However, the Taiwan Constitutional Court
decided differently and considered that Article 4,
paragraph 2, of the SAIP, was unconstitutional as
it infringed upon the right to identity and the legal
intent of equality.
c. Case on the National Health Insurance
Research Database (TCC Judgment
111-Hsien-Pan-13, 2022 )
The question in this case deals with whether the
National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA)
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights
of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW)
that indigenous peoples are entitled to the
of National Health Insurance (NHI) established
determination. The argument the NHRC set forth
to the Health and Welfare Data Science Center
2022, was founded on these and other principles
allowed to grant use of this data by others.
of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), stipulates
may transmit data held in the research database
right to non-discrimination and the right to self-
by the National Health Research Institute (NHRI)
before the Constitutional Court on January 17,
(HWDC), and whether both bodies should be
prescribed by international human rights law.
i. The NHRC argued that the legal intent
(mens legis) of Article 4, Paragraph 2 of the
SAIP was not to say that the acquisition of
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or any form of governmental recognition, but
National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report
Tsai Tzung-jen and others of the Taiwan
Association for Human Rights (TAHR) petitioned
for constitutional interpretation because, without
the consent of the concerned party, the provision