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

¹ The protest con­tains:

1.

the name of the per­son or of the busi­ness for whom and against whom the protest is made;

2.

a state­ment that a re­quest was made without suc­cess to the per­son or com­pany against whom the protest is made to per­form his or its ob­lig­a­tion un­der the bill of ex­change or that such per­son or com­pany could not be reached or that their busi­ness premises or ad­dress could not be traced;

3.

an in­dic­a­tion of the place at which and date on which the re­quest was made or at­temp­ted without suc­cess;

4.

the sig­na­ture of the per­son or of­fi­cial body mak­ing the protest.

² Where a part pay­ment is made, this must be noted in the protest.

³ If the drawee to whom the bill of ex­change has been presen­ted for ac­cept­ance in­sists that it be presen­ted again on the fol­low­ing day, this must also be noted in the protest.