Tsai says that this national trust will follow Chapter 8 of the Trust Act. In the past, most charitable trusts were portions of an estate left to banks rather than next of kin after the death of a business owner. The banks then determined what charitable work the assets would support. But this is the first time in Taiwan that a natural setting or a cultural landscape has become the object of a charitable trust.
蔡嘉陽指出，國民信託是根據《信託法》第 8 章「公益信託」的條款實施，以往常見的公益信託是企業家去世後部分財產不留給子孫而委託給銀行管理，並約定好需運用於公益事業；至於以自然環境和人文景觀為信託對象的，這算是國內第一遭。