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

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 30 March 1911 (Status as of 1 January 2022)
Art. 396

C. Ef­fects

I. Scope of agency

 

1 Un­less ex­pressly defined by the con­tract, the scope of the agency is de­term­ined by the nature of the busi­ness to which it relates.

2 In par­tic­u­lar, it in­cludes the au­thor­ity to carry out such trans­ac­tions as are re­quired for per­form­ance of the con­tract.

3 The agent re­quires spe­cial au­thor­ity to agree a set­tle­ment, ac­cept an ar­bit­ra­tion award, con­tract bill li­ab­il­it­ies, ali­en­ate or en­cum­ber land or make gifts.240

240 Amended by An­nex 1 No II 5 of the Civil Pro­ced­ure Code of 19 Dec. 2008, in force since 1 Jan. 2011 (AS 2010 1739; BBl 2006 7221).

 
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