Taipei Times
Date: Jan 22, 2018
By: Lee Hsin-fang and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Executive Yuan plans to prioritize a proposed political data act (政治檔案條例) in the next legislative session and require government agencies to complete a survey of all political documents — including those from during the Martial Law era — within six months of the act’s implementation, sources said yesterday.
This would allow documents that have been verified as political documents to be sent to the national archives, the sources said.
To allow the government to gather political documents held by different agencies, political parties and civil groups — such as those from the Martial Law era that involve the violation of human rights — Premier William Lai (賴清德) has reportedly instructed the National Development Council (NDC) to draft a political data act that contains the qualities of a special law.
The instruction was made after the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice (促進轉型正義條例) passed its third reading in the Legislative Yuan on Dec. 5. [FULL STORY]