Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹With­in the mean­ing of this Act, a nat­ur­al per­son:

a.

has their dom­i­cile in the state where they reside with the in­tent of es­tab­lish­ing per­man­ent res­id­ence;

b.

has their ha­bitu­al res­id­ence in the state where they live for a cer­tain peri­od of time, even if this peri­od is of lim­ited dur­a­tion from the out­set;

c.

has their es­tab­lish­ment in the state where the centre of their pro­fes­sion­al or com­mer­cial activ­it­ies is loc­ated.

²No per­son may have more than one dom­i­cile at the same time. If a per­son does not have a dom­i­cile any­where, the ha­bitu­al res­id­ence is the rel­ev­ant place. The pro­vi­sions of the Civil Code¹⁹ re­lat­ing to dom­i­cile and res­id­ence do not ap­ply.