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One chief expert and two experts shall be designated for Regional Skills Competition, National Skills Competition for the Physically and Mentally Challenged and National Team Selections for WSC / IA; and one chief expert and three experts shall be designated for National Skills Competition or other skills competition organized or participated in for a specific purpose.
The Chief Expert may, according to his/her needs, recommend one to three assistant experts or technical advisors to assist in handling the competition affairs or maintaining machineries and equipment.
The number of experts, assistant experts and technical advisors mentioned in the two preceding paragraphs may be increased based on the actual needs of skills competition.

The term of the chief expert for Regional Skills Competition (hereinafter the "Regional Chief Expert"), as well as the experts, assistant experts and technical advisors, shall be limited to the period of the competition.

The chief expert of National Skills Competition, National Skills Competition for the Physically and Mentally Challenged, and other skills competitions held for specific purposes (hereinafter referred to as the National Chief Expert) shall have a professional background and leadership and management skills. The National Chief Expert shall also meet one of the following qualifications:
1. Having been awarded top three in WSC, IA or WSAC and employed in relevant work for at least six years.
2. Having been awarded top three in National Skills Competition or National Skills Competition for the Physically and Mentally Challenged and employed in relevant work for at least eight years.
3. Obtaining a technician certificate as Class A and employed in relevant work for at least eight years.
4. Obtaining a technician certificate as Class B and employed in relevant work for at least ten years.
5. Having been trained for the WSC, IA or WSAC and won more than 2 medals.
6. Having been trained for National Skills Competition or National Skills Competition for the Physically and Mentally Challenged and won more than four times of the first three places.
7. Having been trained for the National High School Skills Competition and won more than four times of the first three places.
8. Graduating from college/university or above and having been employed in relevant work for more than twelve years with excellent performance in a specific field.
9. Having served as a committee member for formulating test projects of skills competition or as an expert for any skills competitions set forth in these Regulations for more than four times.
The National Chief Expert to be openly selected by the central competent authority shall meet the aforesaid qualifications, with the capability of communicating in English being preferred prioritized.
The National Chief Expert shall, subject to the review and approval of the central competent authority, recommend and appoint a person who meets the qualifications set forth in Paragraph 1 to serve as the National Deputy Chief Expert.

The maximum term of the National Chief Expert shall be two years, which may be renewed upon expiry.
Any National Chief Expert’s fails to win awards of Excellence or above for two consecutive terms of WSC or IA, shall submit a review report. If the review confirms that such failure is not attributable to the National Chief Expert, the central competent authority may renew his/her term.However, if such failure continues in the subsequent competition, the central competent authority shall not renew the term upon expiry.
The term of National Deputy Chief Expert shall be the same as National Chief Expert and shall be terminated along with the National Chief Expert’s dismissal.
When the term of a National Chief Expert is renewed by the central competent authority, he/ she may, subject to the review and approval of the central competent authority, recommend and appoint a person who meets the qualifications of the preceding first paragraph to serve as National Deputy Chief Expert.

The duties of the National Chief Experts are as follows:
1. Stipulate the regulations of the skills categories and prepare the tests.
2. Recommend Regional Chief Experts, Experts, Assistant Experts and Technical Advisor and allocate tasks.
3. Assist in the leasing of competition premises, equipment and tools.
4. Review the performance of participants of all skills categories in a skills competition and prepare recommendation tables showing their strength and weakness to the central competent authority for their reference.
5. Prepare National Competitors’ training programs, training guidance, and draft reports.
6. Seek sponsors to provide training premises, materials, machinery, instructors, equipment and living subsidies for the National Competitors.
7. Attend all meetings held by the central competent authority.
8. Concurrently serve as members of technical committees of skills competitions.
9. Concurrently serve as WSC Expert or IA Expert.
10. Carry out other matters related to the competitions.
In case the National Chief Expert cannot perform his duties due to any reason, the National Deputy Chief Expert shall act on his/her behalf; or the central competent authority shall appoint a person with the qualifications of National Chief Expert to perform.

The central competent authority can relieve of their duties the National Chief Expert or person acting on his/her behalf in case of any of the following circumstances:
1. Refusing to avoid conflict of interest when their spouses, former spouses, blood relations within the top four degrees of kinship or marital relations within the top three degrees of kinship are participants in the tests for skills competition certification.
2. Having substantial facts to show that his/her duties were not performed in a fair manner.
3. Failing to effectively maintain the order of the competition during the competition period. Unsatisfactory work attitude in executing the competition work.
4. Failing to perform the competition tasks with responsible manner that results the mistake of calculating competition scores or record.
5. Losing all or part of test sheets, answer sheets (cards), work pieces or review sheets.
6. Leaking or stealing classified test questions, evaluation criteria, evaluation sheets, referential answers, test results, or classified information and materials learned or possessed through performance of their duties.
7. Provided qualification documents that are proved to be counterfeited, forged, or unreal.
8. Receiving the final verdict of more than one year of imprisonment excluding offence by negligence.
9. Other situations affecting the rights of the competition participants or damaging the national image and reputation.

The central competent authority shall carry out a selection of qualified experts for any job category of any skills competition in any of the following cases:
1. New job category.
2. Job categories of which the number of qualified experts is insufficient after the evaluation.
3. Other job categories that are required to be included.

Any person with any of the following qualifications may be recommended by his/her organization or may self-recommend to be selected as a qualified expert of a skills competition:
1. Having participated in and won the Excellence or above prize in WSC, IA or WSAC as well as having been employed in relevant work for more than three years.
2. Having participated in and won the Excellence or above prize in WSC, IA, or WSAC, having graduated from college/university or above or with equivalent educational credentials, and having been hired by the central competent authority to serve as the assistant expert for the relevant skills category for more than three times.
3. Having a high school/vocational high school diploma or higher and having at least eight years of work experience in related competitions.
4. Having taught or trained in any department relating to a competition job category for at least three years and having work experience in related competitions for more than two years.
5. Having graduated from college/university or above or with equivalent educational credentials, having obtained a technician certificate as Class B or above relating to the competition job categories, and having performed relevant work for at least two years.
6. Having served as a member for preparation or supervision of formulating test projects of skill competitions for relevant competition job categories.
7. Having accepted employment from the central competent authority and the Ministry of Education to serve as an expert for the relevant job category.
The central competent authority shall openly select the persons assigned by the units or self-recommended as referred to in the preceding paragraph.
The qualifications of the expert prescribed in Paragraph 1 for job categories with special conditions may be specially approved by the central competent authority.
Those selected as qualified experts shall participate in the full training programs organized by the central competent authority. The central competent authority will issue a certificate of qualification after the participants have passed the tests and shall include them in the talent database of experts.

Regional Chief Experts and experts shall be selected by the central competent authority from the talent database of experts.

Any expert with any of the following circumstances shall recuse from scoring during competition period:
1. The expert works in the same agency (organization) or business entity or has a teacher-student relationship with any participant to the competition.
2. Their spouses, ex-spouses, blood relatives within the top four degrees of kinship, or marital relatives within the top three degrees of kinship are taking the field tests.
3. With concrete evidence proves that they are likely to be partial when executing their duties.
Any expert subject to recusal under the previous paragraphs who fails to do so shall be ordered to recuse by the Chief Expert. The score given by such expert shall not be taken into consideration.

Experts shall exercise their duties in accordance with principles of fairness, equality, transparency and professionalism and shall act in compliance with the guidelines for experts, competition rules, and resolutions concluded by relevant competition meetings.
The guidelines for experts specified in the previous paragraph shall be published by the central competent authority.

The qualifications of any expert who violates the guidelines for experts, competition rules or resolutions of relevant competition meetings shall be suspended for two years.