Federal Act on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code

¹Sig­na­tures must be ap­pen­ded by hand by the parties to the con­tract.

²A sig­na­ture re­pro­duced by mech­an­ic­al means is re­cog­nised as suf­fi­cient only where such re­pro­duc­tion is cus­tom­ar­ily per­mit­ted, and in par­tic­u­lar in the case of sig­na­tures on large num­bers of is­sued se­cur­it­ies.

^2bisAn au­then­tic­ated elec­tron­ic sig­na­ture com­bined with an au­then­tic­ated time stamp with­in the mean­ing of the Fed­er­al Act of 18 March 2016¹ on Elec­tron­ic Sig­na­tures is deemed equi­val­ent to a hand­writ­ten sig­na­ture, sub­ject to any stat­utory or con­trac­tu­al pro­vi­sion to the con­trary.²

³The sig­na­ture of a blind per­son is bind­ing only if it has been duly cer­ti­fied or if it is proved that he was aware of the terms of the doc­u­ment at the time of sign­ing.