Federal Act
on Private Security Services provided Abroad
(PSSA)

1 All per­son­nel shall, as a gen­er­al rule, be un­armed.

2 Where the situ­ation abroad re­quires that any per­son­nel, by way of ex­cep­tion, carry a weapon so as to be able to re­act in self-de­fence or in a situ­ation of ne­ces­sity, the con­tract­ing au­thor­ity shall spe­cify this in the con­tract.

3 The con­tract­ing au­thor­ity shall as­cer­tain that the per­son­nel are in pos­ses­sion of the per­mits re­quired un­der the ap­plic­able law.

4 The weapons le­gis­la­tion of the place at which the pro­tec­tion task is to be per­formed ap­plies.