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

¹ With­in 30 days of tak­ing pos­ses­sion of the prop­erty, the ten­ant may chal­lenge the ini­tial rent as un­fair with­in the mean­ing of Art­icles 269 and 269abe­fore the con­cili­ation au­thor­ity and re­quest said au­thor­ity to or­der a re­duc­tion of the rent:

a.

if the ten­ant felt com­pelled to con­clude the lease agree­ment on ac­count of per­son­al or fam­ily hard­ship or by reas­on of the con­di­tions pre­vail­ing on the loc­al mar­ket for res­id­en­tial and com­mer­cial premises; or

b.

if the ini­tial rent re­quired by the land­lord is sig­ni­fic­antly high­er than the pre­vi­ous rent for the same prop­erty.

² In the event of a hous­ing short­age, the can­tons may make it ob­lig­at­ory in all or part of their ter­rit­ory to use the form stip­u­lated in Art­icle 269d when con­tract­ing any new lease.