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

¹ Where the pre­script­ive peri­od for one per­son who is jointly and sev­er­ally li­able for a debt or jointly li­able for in­di­vis­ible per­form­ance is in­ter­rup­ted, it is like­wise in­ter­rup­ted for all oth­er co-ob­lig­ors, provided the in­ter­rup­tion is due to an act by the cred­it­or.

² Where the pre­script­ive peri­od for the prin­cip­al debt­or is in­ter­rup­ted, it is like­wise in­ter­rup­ted for the surety, provided the in­ter­rup­tion is due to an act by the cred­it­or.

³ However, where the pre­script­ive peri­od for the guar­ant­or is in­ter­rup­ted, it is not in­ter­rup­ted for the prin­cip­al debt­or.

⁴ An in­ter­rup­tion ef­fect­ive against an in­surer is also ef­fect­ive against the debt­or and vice-versa, provided there is a dir­ect claim against the in­surer.