The current Act provides a legal basis for an ‘administrative inspection’ where the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport or each Mayor/Do Governor may, if deemed necessary, require public officials under his/her control to inspect the books, documents, and other aspects of public transportation operators or to ask questions to relevant persons.

However, the current provision only contains an abstract/comprehensive criterion for executing such administrative inspection, which makes it difficult for the public transportation operator (who will be the subject of the inspection) to predict the administrative inspection, and it is possible for the relevant authority to conduct such inspection arbitrarily, raising the need for clarification of the provision of the criteria for such inspection.

Therefore, this amendment seeks to prevent the abuse of administrative inspection authority and to improve the predictability of the administrative inspection by specifying the criteria for such inspection to include cases such as supervising the appropriate use of the subsidies or loans acquired by the public transport operator under the Act.

Amend the provision so that the execution criteria for administrative inspection to include cases where the relevant authority is supervising the appropriate use of subsidies or loans acquired by the public transport operator under the Act (Article 22, paragraph 2)