Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ If in­terests that are le­git­im­ate and clearly pre­pon­der­ant ac­cord­ing to the Swiss con­cep­tion of law so re­quire, a man­dat­ory pro­vi­sion of a law oth­er than the one re­ferred to by this Act may be taken in­to con­sid­er­a­tion, provided the situ­ation dealt with has a close con­nec­tion with that oth­er law.

²In de­cid­ing wheth­er such a pro­vi­sion is to be taken in­to con­sid­er­a­tion, con­sid­er­a­tion shall be giv­en to its pur­pose and the con­sequences of its ap­plic­a­tion, in or­der to reach a de­cision that is ap­pro­pri­ate hav­ing re­gard to the Swiss con­cep­tion of law.