Federal Act on Political Rights

¹The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall as­cer­tain the res­ult of the vote (val­id­a­tion) as soon as it is es­tab­lished that no ap­peal against the vote has been filed with the Fed­er­al Su­preme Court, or as soon as a de­cision has been made on such an ap­peal.¹

²The val­id­a­tion de­cree shall be pub­lished in the Fed­er­al Gaz­ette.

³Amend­ments to the Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion shall come in­to force on their ad­op­tion by the People and the can­tons, un­less the pro­pos­al provides oth­er­wise.

⁴Where a change in the law can­not be delayed and as soon as the res­ult of the vote is bey­ond dis­pute, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil or the Fed­er­al As­sembly may bring draft le­gis­la­tion or fed­er­al de­crees on the ad­op­tion of in­ter­na­tion­al treat­ies pro­vi­sion­ally in­to force pri­or to the com­ple­tion of the val­id­a­tion pro­ced­ure, or in the case of acts that have been de­clared to be ur­gent, al­low such acts to con­tin­ue in force, or re­peal the same.²