Control Yuan

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Control Yuan

監察院 Jiānchá Yuàn (Mandarin) Kàm-tshat Īnn (Taiwanese) Kam-chhat Yen (Hakka)
Seal of the Control Yuan
Agency overview
Formed	16 February 1928; 96 years ago (1928-02-16) (pre-constitution) 4 June 1948; 75 years ago (1948-06-04) (1947 Constitution) 1 February 1993; 31 years ago (1993-02-01) (1992 Constitution amendment)
Preceding	Auditing Yuan
Jurisdiction	Taiwan
Headquarters	Zhongzheng District, Taipei
Agency executives	Chen Chu, President of the Control Yuan Lee Hung-chun, Vice President of the Control Yuan
Key document	Additional Articles and the original Constitution of the Republic of China
Website	www.cy.gov.tw

Control Yuan 監察院
Type
Type	Upper house
History
Founded	4 June 1948; 75 years ago (1948-06-04)
Disbanded	1 February 1993; 31 years ago (1993-02-01)
Structure
Seats	178
Length of term	6 years
Authority	Constitution of the Republic of China
Elections
Voting system	Indirect election
Meeting place
Control Yuan Building, Nanking (1948-1950) Control Yuan Building, Taipei, Taiwan
Constitution
Constitution of the Republic of China

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The Control Yuan is the supervisory and auditory branch of the government of the Republic of China, both during its time in mainland China and Taiwan.^[1]

Designed as a hybrid of auditor and ombudsman by Taiwanese law, the Control Yuan holds the following powers:^[2]

• Impeachment: The Control Yuan has the power to impeach government officials. Successfully impeached cases then go to the Disciplinary Court of the Judicial Yuan for adjudication.^[3] Impeachment of the President and the Vice President of the Republic follows a different procedure and does not go through the Control Yuan.
• Censure: The Control Yuan also has the power to censure a government official. The censure is sent to the official's superior officer.^[4]
• Audit: The Executive Yuan (cabinet) presents the annual budget to the Control Yuan each year for audit.
• Corrective Measures: The Control Yuan, after investigating the work and facilities of the Executive Yuan and its subordinate organs, may propose corrective measures to the Executive Yuan or its subordinate organs for improvement after these measures are examined and approved by the relevant committees.

According to the current Constitution, the Control Yuan shall consist of 29 members. One member shall be the President of the Control Yuan, and another shall be the Vice President. All members, including the President and Vice President of Control Yuan, shall be nominated by the President of Taiwan and approved by Legislative Yuan (the parliament of Taiwan). Members serve with a term limit of six years.

Prior to constitutional reforms in the 1990s, the Control Yuan, along with National Assembly (electoral college) and the Legislative Yuan (lower house) formed the national tricameral parliament. It functioned similarly to an upper house of a bicameral legislature, though it formed its own separate branch and was indirectly elected by provincial or municipal legislatures with 178 senators elected.^[5]