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

¹ Where, hav­ing ac­cep­ted the prop­erty, the ten­ant or less­ee is in ar­rears with pay­ments of rent or ac­cess­ory charges, the land­lord or lessor may set a time lim­it for pay­ment and no­ti­fy him that in the event of non-pay­ment the land­lord or lessor will ter­min­ate the lease on ex­piry of that time lim­it. The min­im­um time lim­it is ten days, and 30 days for leases of res­id­en­tial or com­mer­cial premises.

² In the event of non-pay­ment with­in the time lim­it the land­lord or lessor may ter­min­ate the con­tract with im­me­di­ate ef­fect or, for leases of res­id­en­tial and com­mer­cial premises, sub­ject to at least 30 days’ no­tice end­ing on the last day of a cal­en­dar month.