The Legislative Yuan yesterday passed amendments to the Act Governing the Handling of Ill-gotten Properties by Political Parties (政黨及其附隨組織不當取得財產處理條例), no longer recognizing the China Youth Corps (CYC) as a party affiliate.
According to the passed amendments, the definition of “affiliate organization” has been expanded to include the clause that “those that were once affiliated with the state are not included.”
The amendments proposed by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Yu Hao (游顥), say that the Executive Yuan established CYC in 1952 under the Ministry of National Defense, and later transformed the youth military organization into a public-service organization.
Photo: Tu Chien-jung, Taipei Times
The proposal said that after the Ill-gotten Assets Settlement Committee in 2018 determined the CYC was a KMT-affiliated organization, all of its assets were frozen.
While Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Fan Yun (范雲) criticized the proposed amendments, saying they interfered with the judicial process, the amendment passed with support from KMT and Taiwan People’s Party legislators, who together hold a majority in the legislature.
The legislature yesterday passed amendments to the Satellite Broadcasting Act (衛星廣播電視法), extending license holder reassessments from three to fiveyears and exempting stations that have not incurred fines exceeding NT$800,000 in the past three years from review.
Broadcasters, TV channel owners, foreign satellite TV companies, or their representatives may continue operating under their original licensed channel during the course of litigation or a petition, the amendments said, adding their effect is ex post facto and could be cited in a legal court.
DPP lawmakers said the amendments were an attempt to enable CTi News to retake its old cable channel.
The National Communications Commission (NCC) in 2020 rejected CTi News’ application to renew its license on the grounds that it operated under a “dysfunctional internal control mechanism,” causing it to frequently break broadcasting regulations.
The news channel, which broadcast via cable channel 52, was taken off the air after its license expired.
CTi subsequently appealed the ruling in administrative courts and the case is still pending a final decision.
Additional reporting by Lee Wen-hsin
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