Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ Build­ings and in­stall­a­tions used by the Con­fed­er­a­tion to ac­com­mod­ate asylum seekers or for con­duct­ing asylum pro­ced­ures re­quire plan­ning ap­prov­al from the FD­JP (ap­prov­al au­thor­ity) if they:

a.

are to be newly con­struc­ted;

b.

are altered or as­signed a new form of use.

² Plan­ning ap­prov­al cov­ers all forms of au­thor­isa­tion re­quired un­der fed­er­al law.

³ Can­ton­al au­thor­isa­tions and plans are not re­quired. The can­ton­al law must be taken in­to con­sid­er­a­tion dur­ing the plan­ning ap­prov­al pro­ced­ure and the weigh­ing up of in­terests.

⁴ In prin­ciple, plan­ning ap­prov­al for pro­jects that will have a con­sid­er­able ef­fect on space and the en­vir­on­ment re­quires a sec­tor­al plan in ac­cord­ance with the Fed­er­al Act of 22 June 1979²⁶⁹on Spa­tial Plan­ning.