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Taipei Times - archiveshe
three pacts signed between Taipei and Beijing last week will automatically go into effect 90 days after approval by the executive branch, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday. MAC Deputy Minister Liu Te-shun (劉德勳) said the three agreements do not require legislative review because they do not concern revisions to existing law.

The Act Governing Relations between the Peoples of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (台灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例) stipulates that agreements that do not require legal amendment automatically take effect within a certain period of time after being referred to the legislature from the executive branch.

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus said yesterday that the legislature does not have sufficient time to review the content of the agreements.