Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ A for­eign de­cision or leg­al doc­u­ment re­gard­ing civil status shall be re­gistered in the Swiss civil status re­gisters if so ordered by the can­ton­al su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity.

² The entry is au­thor­ised if the re­quire­ments set out in Art­icles 25 to 27 are met.

³ The per­sons con­cerned shall first be heard if it is not es­tab­lished that the rights of the parties have been suf­fi­ciently re­spec­ted dur­ing the pro­ceed­ings in the for­eign state where the de­cision was rendered.