Federal Act
on the Amendment of the Swiss Civil Code
(Part Five: The Code of Obligations)

¹ The right of the cus­tom­er to bring claims due to de­fects in the work pre­scribe two years from ac­cept­ance of the work. However, the pre­script­ive peri­od amounts to five years where de­fects in a mov­able ob­ject that has been in­cor­por­ated in an im­mov­able work in a man­ner con­sist­ent with its nature and pur­pose have caused the work to be de­fect­ive.

² The cus­tom­er’s claims in re­spect of de­fects in an im­mov­able work against both the con­tract­or and any ar­chi­tect or en­gin­eer who rendered ser­vices in con­nec­tion with such work pre­scribe five years after com­ple­tion of the work.

³ Oth­er­wise the rules gov­ern­ing pre­scrip­tion of the cor­res­pond­ing rights of a buy­er ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis.