Asylum Act

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Art. 59 Effect

Per­sons to whom Switzer­land has gran­ted asylum or who ful­fil the re­quire­ments for refugee status are deemed in their re­la­tions with all fed­er­al and can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies to be refugees with­in the mean­ing of this Act and the Con­ven­tion of 28 Ju­ly 19512 re­lat­ing to the Status of Refugees.

1 Amended by An­nex No 2 of the FA of 20 March 2015 (Im­ple­ment­a­tion of Art. 121 para. 3–6 Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion on the ex­pul­sion of for­eign na­tion­als con­victed of cer­tain crim­in­al of­fences), in force since 1 Oct. 2016 (AS 2016 2329; BBl 2013 5975).
2 SR 0.142.30

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