Federal Act
on Swiss Citizenship
(Swiss Citizenship Act, SCA)

¹ If an ap­plic­a­tion is made for or­din­ary nat­ur­al­isa­tion, the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­ity shall, if the form­al re­quire­ments of Art­icle 9 have been met, as­sess wheth­er the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 11 let­ters a and b have been met.

² The SEM shall in­struct the can­ton­al nat­ur­al­isa­tion au­thor­ity to con­duct the en­quir­ies re­quired to as­sess wheth­er the re­quire­ments for sim­pli­fied nat­ur­al­isa­tion, re­in­state­ment of cit­izen­ship, de­clar­ing a nat­ur­al­isa­tion null and void or with­draw­ing Swiss cit­izen­ship have been met.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the pro­ced­ure. It may is­sue uni­form guidelines on draw­ing up en­quiry re­ports and provide for dead­lines for con­duct­ing the en­quir­ies men­tioned in para­graph 2.