Taiwan promulgates its rewritten narcotics statute
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docs/DATA-MAINTENANCE.md +6 @@ -1680,2 +1680,8 @@ entries record the verified developments; Ukraine's access step now dates first Illinois and Louisiana state scores were reviewed without inserting state vectors into the national US chain. Profile/quick-answer regression checks guard the reported distinctions. + +A [Taiwan gap pass](research/history-taiwan-gap-2026-10-26.md) on 26 October +2026 adds the 1973 treatment-exemption amendment and the 1992 de-martial-lawed +rewrite, both read in full on Wikisource against the 1955 original. Unscored +context: treatment exits widened and death penalties softened, cannabis ranges +unchanged. One article covers the 1992 hinge. Today's scores are unchanged.
docs/research/history-taiwan-gap-2026-10-26.md +72 @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +# Taiwan: the 1973 treatment amendment and the 1992 rewrite + +Research checked on 26 October 2026. Read `DATA-MAINTENANCE.md` and +`WRITING.md`, the Taiwan profile and its nine history entries before editing. +No book was used. This pass fills the 1970s and 1990s of the 1955–1998 gap +with two dated entries and one article. Cameroon and the other active +country passes were left untouched. + +## Sources actually read + +- Wikisource 戡亂時期肅清煙毒條例 (民國44年): the 1955 original, in full — + Article 4's one-month self-report window, Articles 5/7/9/10/14 penalty + structure (cannabis sale death-or-life, use 1–3 years, possession + 6 months–2 years), martial-law purpose. +- Wikisource 戡亂時期肅清煙毒條例 (民國62年): the 1973 revision, in full — + legislated 12 June, promulgated 21 June 1973, amending Articles 4 and 9. + Article 4 reopened treatment-before-discovery without the one-month limit; + Article 9's use ranges are textually identical to 1955 apart from + rewording, including treatment-first, the two-thirds aggravator and the + third-offence death penalty. +- Wikisource 肅清煙毒條例 (1992 revision): the current-page text, in full — + legislated 3 July, promulgated 27 July 1992, renaming to the Narcotics + Elimination Act. Purpose de-martial-lawed; Article 4 treatment exits + widened (designated centres, non-addict surrender); death penalties + softened to death-or-life in Articles 5, 9 and 14; fines redenominated in + New Taiwan dollars; cannabis use and possession ranges unchanged; + observation detention and sentence credit added. +- MOJ legislative history (English): the amendment list confirming the + 1973 Articles 4/9 amendment, the 1992 renaming and amended articles, and + the 1998 full revision. Used only as an index, not for content. + +## What changed + +- New `taiwan-voluntary-treatment-1973` (1973-06-21, easing, unscored): + the reopened treatment exemption; penalties unchanged so no segment + moves. Fills the 1970s. +- New `taiwan-narcotics-revision-1992` (1992-07-27, `other`, unscored): + the de-martial-lawed rewrite with wider treatment exits and softened + death penalties; cannabis ranges unchanged so no segment moves. Fills + the 1990s. +- `taiwan-narcotics-act-rewritten-1998`: related link to the 1992 entry. + No scores touched — both new entries are scoreless context, and the + timeline's single scored step (1955 100→2) is unchanged, so the profile + file was not edited. + +## Article + +- `articles/taiwan-narcotics-revision-1992.md` (369 words, four headings): + the purpose rewrite, treatment exits, softened deaths, sentence-credit + mechanics, and the bridge to 1998. Links to `/country/tw/`. + +## Still open + +- The exact promulgation-day gazette citations for 1973 and 1992 (dates + rest on the statutes' own legislative/promulgation lines, which is + standard for this file). +- Whether the 蔴煙 reading bears on the 1955 scores; out of scope here. + +## Validation + +- Parsed-history comparison of the working tree against HEAD: exactly two + entries added and one entry revised (related link); no other country's + entries changed, none removed. +- `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain tw`: single scored step, no flags. + `npm run scores:triage -- tw`: no open items from this pass (both new + entries carry `unscored` reasons; the 2009 entry was already reviewed). +- `npm run history:test`: 39 passed. `npm run answers:test`: 27 passed. + `npm run scores:triage -- tw`: 1 scored, 0 open. +- Production build passed (4,222 pages). Both new history pages render. + Article: 369 words, four headings. +- Concurrent agents' work in shared files is untouched; this commit stages + only the Taiwan hunks and files.