An amendment to the Police Uniforms Act (警察服制條例) cleared the legislative floor yesterday, scrapping a clause that required female police officers to wear skirts in summer.
To comply with the Enforcement Act of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (消除對婦女一切形式歧視公約施行法), Article 8 of which requires “all government units [to] review all rules, regulations and administrative measures administered by them in accordance with the Convention,” the Executive Yuan proposed to amend the Police Uniforms Act to abolish the regulations that have come in conflict with the convention.
