In October the same year, the National Council of the China Medical Association issued a resolution on "Death and Brain Death", and in 1987 the Legislative Yuan enacted "Regulations governing human organ transplantation" which established brain death as the basis for pronouncing actual death, though limiting this to the specific scope of human organ transplantation.
首先是同年十月，中華民國醫師公會全國聯合會發表「腦死即死亡」的決議，立法院並於七十六年通過「人體器官移植條例」，將腦死明定為判定死亡的依據，但只限於人體器官移植的特定範圍。