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What conditions must substitutive service draftees meet to apply for early discharge?

(1) Every family member of the draftee is aged above 65 or below 15, or mentally or physically disabled or with major injury or disease, or aged above 15, below 18 and certified by an educational authority-registered school to be attending it.
(2) A family member of the draftee suffers from medium mental or physical disabilities or above, and there are no other family members except the draftee and another family member capable of being a caretaker to take care of the said disabled member, or other family members all are in the condition described in the preceding paragraph. When there is more than one family member with medium mental or physical disabilities or above, for each additional disabled member, one extra family member capable of being a caretaker can be added. When the draftee's parents, child, or spouse suffer from severe mental/physical disability, the caretaking ability of other family members can be excluded.
(3) The draftee has two or more children under the age of 12, or has one child under the age of 12 and the spouse is pregnant for more than six months.
(4) The draftee's family is listed as a low-income or middle-to-low income household according to the Public Assistance Act, but it does not apply to a draftee if only himself or his siblings above the age of 18 is/are ratified as low-income or medium low-income.
(5) The draftee's parents or siblings died or suffered third-degree mental and physical disorders or above during their term of military service, with the fact of indemnity established, and the draftee has no other siblings; or, regardless whether the draftee has any other sibling or not, the said parents or siblings died or suffered first-degree mental and physical disorders during their term of military service, with the fact of indemnity established.