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

¹ The less­ee re­quires the lessor’s writ­ten con­sent in or­der to:

a.

al­ter the man­ner in which the ob­ject has tra­di­tion­ally been man­aged in ways which will have last­ing sig­ni­fic­ance bey­ond the dur­a­tion of the lease;

b.

carry out renov­a­tions or modi­fic­a­tions to the ob­ject above and bey­ond the re­mit of nor­mal main­ten­ance.

² Once such con­sent has been giv­en, the lessor may re­quire the res­tor­a­tion of the ob­ject to its pre­vi­ous con­di­tion only if this has been agreed in writ­ing.

³ Where the lessor has not giv­en his writ­ten con­sent to an al­ter­a­tion with­in the mean­ing of para­graph 1 let. a. and the less­ee has failed to re­verse such al­ter­a­tion with­in an ap­pro­pri­ate time, the lessor may ter­min­ate the con­tract with im­me­di­ate ef­fect or, for leases of res­id­en­tial and com­mer­cial premises, sub­ject to at least 30 days’ no­tice ex­pir­ing on the last day of a cal­en­dar month.