Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ Asylum seekers may be ac­com­mod­ated in a centre run by a can­ton or com­mune if there are not suf­fi­cient places in the fed­er­al centres un­der Art­icle 24. The agree­ment of the can­ton con­cerned is re­quired for ac­com­mod­at­ing asylum seekers in a com­mun­al centre.

² The can­ton or the com­mune con­cerned:

a.

shall en­sure suit­able ac­com­mod­a­tion, care and activ­it­ies for the asylum seekers;

b.

shall provide so­cial as­sist­ance or emer­gency aid;

c.

shall provide med­ic­al care and primary school edu­ca­tion for chil­dren;

d.

shall take the se­cur­ity meas­ures ne­ces­sary to en­sure or­derly op­er­a­tion.

³ The can­ton or the com­mune con­cerned may del­eg­ate the tasks lis­ted in para­graph 2 to third parties, either par­tially or in full.

⁴ The pro­vi­sion of so­cial as­sist­ance and emer­gency aid is gov­erned by can­ton­al law.

⁵ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall make fed­er­al con­tri­bu­tions by agree­ment to the can­ton or com­mune con­cerned to com­pensate for the ad­min­is­trat­ive, staff and oth­er costs which arise from ful­filling the tasks lis­ted in para­graph 2. The com­pens­a­tion shall be fixed as a lump sum. In ex­cep­tion­al cases, the con­tri­bu­tions may be fixed on the basis of ex­pendit­ure, es­pe­cially in the case of non-re­cur­ring costs.

⁶ The oth­er pro­vi­sions con­cern­ing fed­er­al centres ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis to can­ton­al and com­mun­al centres. In the centres defined in para­graph 1, the same pro­ced­ures may be car­ried out as in fed­er­al centres as defined in Art­icle 24.