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

¹ Where an ob­lig­a­tion must be dis­charged or some oth­er trans­ac­tion ac­com­plished with­in a cer­tain time lim­it sub­sequent to con­clu­sion of the con­tract, the time lim­it is defined as fol­lows:

1.

where the time lim­it is ex­pressed as a num­ber of days, per­form­ance falls due on the last there­of, not in­clud­ing the date on which the con­tract was con­cluded, and where the num­ber stip­u­lated is eight or fif­teen days, this means not one or two weeks but a full eight or fif­teen days;

2.

where the time lim­it is ex­pressed as a num­ber of weeks, per­form­ance falls due in the last week of the peri­od on the same day of the week as the one on which the con­tract was con­cluded;

3.

where the time lim­it is ex­pressed as a num­ber of months or as a peri­od com­pris­ing sev­er­al months (a year, half-year or quarter), per­form­ance falls due in the last month of the peri­od on the same day of the month as the one on which the con­tract was con­cluded or, where the last month of the peri­od con­tains no such day, on the last day of that month.

The term ‘half-month’ has the same mean­ing as a time lim­it of fif­teen days; if the time lim­it is ex­pressed as a peri­od of one or more months plus one half-month, the fif­teen days are coun­ted last.

² Time lim­its are cal­cu­lated in the same man­ner when stip­u­lated as run­ning from a date oth­er than the date on which the con­tract was con­cluded.

³ Where an ob­lig­a­tion must be dis­charged be­fore a spe­cified time lim­it, per­form­ance must oc­cur be­fore that time ex­pires.