4. Functional acts:
(a) Acts by the State or local governments to offer money and goods (in cases where any local
government grants official commendations and awards, the granting of any supplementary award
shall be excluded; hereafter in item (b), the same shall apply) pursuant to the statutes or regulations
which are implemented under their own project plans and with their budgets;
(b) Acts by the local governments to offer money and goods under their own project plans and with
their budgets, under ordinances of the relevant local governments which stipulates definitely the
objects, methods, scopes, etc.;
(c) Acts of relief or charity which are implemented by the State agencies or local governments
executing relief or charity projects under their own project plans and with their budgets after
revealing their titles;
(d) Acts by the heads of the State, local governments or public institutions (referring to institutions
designated under Article 4 of the Act on the Management of Public Institutions or other institutions
determined by the National Election Commission Regulations) to offer the foods of a kind of meal
(referring to the snacks in the cases of the heads of local governments) not later than 60 days prior to
the election day within the ordinary limits and in accordance with their own project plans and
budgets, to the public officials under their command, executive officers and employees, heads of the
related agencies or organizations, representatives of the residents within customary scopes, who have
taken part in the meeting to receive a report on affairs or to hear the residents' public opinions, etc.
while they visit the subordinate agencies for the first round of visits or the New Year's visit;
(e) Acts by the national organizations and local governments to provide money and goods or other
profits in property in the names of the relevant national institutions or local governments, in
accordance with their own business plans and budgets, so as to deal with the urgent pending issues;
(f) Acts by national institutions to give a prize to exemplary sons, devoted daughters-in-law,
exemplary citizens or persons of distinguished service, etc. during a period other than the election
period, or acts by national institutions or local governments to provide comfort items to street
cleaners, shoeblacks, salespersons of newspapers in streets or postmen, etc. within their jurisdictions;
(g) Acts by members of the National Assembly or local councils to provide advice on citizen
petitions free of charge in their permanent establishments where they perform their duties or tasks, or
places prescribed by the National Election Commission Regulations, such as temporary offices, in
cases of Sis/Guns/Gus where they do not have permanent establishments, or by a political party to
provide advice in the headquarters thereof;
(h) Acts by professionals equipped with specific qualifications determined by Acts, such as attorneysat-law or doctors, to provide an advice for free on their own areas, such as laws or medical services,
through their website opened to promote their tasks;
(i) Acts by a company related to a candidate under Article 114 (2) or his or her family members to
distribute materials for PR activities (excluding materials in which the name, title or photograph of a
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