Federal Act
on War Materiel
(War Mat Act, WMA)

¹ The in­dir­ect fin­an­cing of the de­vel­op­ment, man­u­fac­ture or ac­quis­i­tion of pro­hib­ited war ma­ter­i­el is it­self pro­hib­ited where the pro­hib­i­tion of dir­ect fin­an­cing is cir­cum­ven­ted thereby.

² In­dir­ect fin­an­cing with­in the mean­ing of this Act is:

a.

par­ti­cip­a­tion in com­pan­ies that de­vel­op, man­u­fac­ture or ac­quire pro­hib­ited war ma­ter­i­el;

b.

the ac­quis­i­tion of debt se­cur­it­ies or oth­er in­vest­ment products is­sued by such com­pan­ies.