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

¹ The pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing pro­tec­tion against un­fair rents (Art. 269 et seq.) ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis to non-ag­ri­cul­tur­al leases and to oth­er con­tracts whose es­sen­tial pur­pose is to reg­u­late the trans­fer of the use of res­id­en­tial or com­mer­cial premises against valu­able con­sid­er­a­tion.

² They do not ap­ply to the lease of lux­ury apart­ments and single-oc­cu­pancy res­id­en­tial units with six or more bed­rooms and re­cep­tion rooms (not in­clud­ing the kit­chen).

³ The pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing chal­lenges to un­fair rents do not ap­ply to res­id­en­tial premises made avail­able with pub­lic sec­tor sup­port for which rent levels are set by a pub­lic au­thor­ity.