Federal Act
on the Acquisition of Immovable Property
in Switzerland by Foreign Non-Residents
(ANRA)

¹ Each can­ton shall ap­point:

a.

one or more li­cens­ing au­thor­it­ies that de­cide on the au­thor­isa­tion re­quire­ment, au­thor­isa­tion and the re­voc­a­tion of an au­thor­isa­tion or con­di­tion;

b.

an au­thor­ity with right of ap­peal that may also re­quest that au­thor­isa­tion be with­drawn or crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings brought and an un­law­ful po­s­i­tion be rec­ti­fied;

c.

an ap­pel­late au­thor­ity.

² The au­thor­ity at the loc­a­tion of the im­mov­able prop­erty has jur­is­dic­tion; in cases in­volving the ac­quis­i­tion of shares in leg­al en­tit­ies or par­ti­cip­a­tion in a busi­ness cap­able of own­ing as­sets without leg­al per­son­al­ity, the au­thor­ity in whose of­fi­cial area the largest part of the im­mov­able prop­erty based on value is loc­ated has jur­is­dic­tion.

³ The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Justice and Po­lice de­cides on con­flicts of jur­is­dic­tion between the au­thor­it­ies of dif­fer­ent can­tons.