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The government should offer consultations and incentives for tenants in unsafe apartment buildings to set up management committees, rather than making it mandatory, housing rights advocates said on Thursday. The Executive Yuan on Feb. 24 approved proposed amendments to the Condominium Administration Act (公寓大廈管理條例) that would require the tenants of more than 10,000 buildings to establish management committees by a deadline. The changes were prompted by a fire at a 13-story building in Kaohsiung in October last year that killed 46 people. The amendments would require tenants of c...

Taichung, March 9 (CNA) The owner of an apartment building in downtown Taichung has been fined NT$1.44 million (US$51,000) in the wake of a fire that killed six tenants last Sunday, the city's Urban Development Bureau said Wednesday.

The Executive Yuan yesterday approved proposed amendments to the Condominium Administration Act (公寓大廈管理條例) that would require more than 10,000 buildings to establish management committees by a deadline. The changes were prompted by a fire at a 13-story older building in Kaohsiung in October last year that killed 46 people. The proposed revision in Paragraph 1 of Article 29 would require that condominiums built around June 29, 1995, when the act was promulgated, set up a management committee or appoint a building manager if the building has been deemed a safety hazard. The Minis...

The Ministry of the Interior on Thursday approved a draft amendment to the Condominium Administration Act (公寓大廈管理條例), which, if passed by the Legislative Yuan, would mandate the creation of management committees for unsafe and old buildings built before 1995. Following a deadly fire in Kaohsiung last week that killed 46 people and injured several others, the safety of Taiwan’s aging buildings has attracted concern. However, the act does not apply to buildings constructed before 1995, the year it was passed. Sixty-six percent of buildings built before 1995 have a management c...