Article 1(Purpose) #
The purpose of this Decree is to prescribe matters delegated by the Global Disease Eradication Fund Act and the matters necessary for enforcement thereof.
Article 2(Persons Obliged to Pay International Departure Fee, and Other Related Matters) #
(1) “Person determined by Presidential Decree” in the main sentence of Article 5 (1) of the Global Disease Eradication Fund Act (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) means a person other than any of the following:
1. A person holding a diplomatic passport;
2. A child under the age of two;
3. A child adopted abroad and his/her escort;
4. A foreign soldier and a civilian military employee stationed in the Republic of Korea;
5. A person departing from the Republic of Korea, because he/she is not permitted or denied to enter the Republic of Korea;
6. A foreigner forced to depart from the Republic of Korea at the expense of the State treasure, among persons subject to deportation referred to in Article 46 of the Immigration Act;
7. A transit passenger at an airport of the Republic of Korea who is departing from the Republic of Korea after having temporarily left a bonded area due to any of the following grounds;
(a) Where the passenger departs from the Republic of Korea on the same or following day inevitably due to being unable to take aircraft;
(b) Where the departure of aircraft is delayed due to the closure of the airport or worsening weather conditions;
(c) Where the aircraft makes an emergency landing for an avoidable reason such as the malfunctioning or hijacking of the aircraft and the necessity for urgent treatment of a patient;
(d) Where the passenger re-enters a bonded area within 24 hours after leaving the bonded area for tourism.
8. A crew member departing from the Republic of Korea to take turns, for on-board works, with other crew member operating aircraft.
(2) The Minister of Foreign Affairs may collect the international departure fees referred to in Article 5 (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as “international departure fees”), according to contract with the air carriers to which the aircraft boarded by persons obliged to pay international departure fees belong, collected by such air carriers in the course of their business of issuing passenger tickets.
Article 3(Operation and Management of Fund) #
(1) Pursuant to Article 6 (2) of the Act, the Minister of Foreign Affairs shall entrust the Korea International Cooperation Agency (hereinafter referred to as “entrusted management entity of the Fund”) under the Korea International Cooperation Agency Act with affairs regarding operating and managing the Global Disease Eradication Fund (hereinafter referred to as “the Fund”) referred to in Article 3 of the Act. In such cases, the expenses incurred in handling affairs regarding operating and managing the Fund shall be borne from the Fund.
(2) The entrusted management entity of the Fund shall have a department in exclusive charge of operation and management of the Fund entrusted pursuant to paragraph (1).
(3) The entrusted management entity of the Fund shall report the status of creation and operation of the Fund to the Minister of Foreign Affairs quarterly within 40 day from the date the relevant quarter ends.
Article 4(Civil Experts) #
(1) Civil experts referred to in the former part of Article 9 (1) of the Act (hereinafter referred to as “civil experts”) shall work on a contractual basis, and the term of their contracts shall be two years in principle and may, if necessary, be extended by between one and three years.
(2) Matters necessary for job assignment, employment, service, remuneration, and other matters necessary for the personnel management of civil experts shall be determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Article 5(Vicarious Conducting of Affairs regarding Imposition and Collection of International Departure Fees) #
(1) The Minister of Foreign Affairs shall, pursuant to Article 10 (1) of the Act, have airport operators referred to in subparagraph 7-2 of Article 2 of the Aviation Act vicariously imose and collect the international departure fees.
(2) The Minister of Foreign Affairs or the entrusted management entity of the Fund may issue notices for payment of the international departure fees calculated by deducting expenses necessary for imposing and collecting the international departure fees to the airport operators (hereinafter referred to as “vicarious agency”) vicariously impose and collect the international departure fees pursuant to paragraph (1).
(3) The vicarious agency, in receipt of notices of payment of the international departure fees pursuant to paragraph (2), shall pay the imposed and collected amounts of international departure fees into the account of the Fund.