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

¹ The de­clar­a­tion of ac­cept­ance is made on the bill of ex­change. It is ex­pressed through the word “ac­cep­ted” or words to the same ef­fect; it must be un­der­lined by the drawee. The drawee is deemed to have de­clared his ac­cept­ance by merely ap­pend­ing his sig­na­ture to the ob­verse of the bill of ex­change.

² Where the bill of ex­change is an after-sight bill or must be presen­ted for ac­cept­ance with­in a spe­cified time lim­it ow­ing to a spe­cial com­ment to that ef­fect, the de­clar­a­tion of ac­cept­ance must in­dic­ate the date on which it is made, un­less the hold­er re­quires that the date of present­a­tion be in­dic­ated. Where no date is in­dic­ated, the hold­er must draw at­ten­tion to this omis­sion by timely protest in or­der to safe­guard his right of re­course against the en­dors­er and the draw­er.