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

¹ An agent is a per­son who un­der­takes to act on a con­tinu­ous basis as an in­ter­me­di­ary for one or more prin­cipals in fa­cil­it­at­ing or con­clud­ing trans­ac­tions on their be­half and for their ac­count without en­ter­ing in­to an em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship with them.²⁶⁰

² Un­less oth­er­wise agreed in writ­ing, the pro­vi­sions of this Sec­tion also ap­ply to per­sons act­ing as agents by way of sec­ond­ary oc­cu­pa­tion. The pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing del cre­dere, pro­hib­i­tion of com­pet­i­tion and ter­min­a­tion of con­tracts for good cause may not be ex­cluded to the det­ri­ment of the agent.