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

¹ An in­stru­ment miss­ing one of the ele­ments stip­u­lated in the pre­vi­ous Art­icle is not deemed a cheque, ex­cept in the cases de­scribed in the fol­low­ing para­graphs.

² Where no oth­er spe­cif­ic place is men­tioned, the place in­dic­ated to­geth­er with the name of the drawee is deemed the place of pay­ment. Where sev­er­al places are in­dic­ated to­geth­er with the name of the drawee, the cheque is pay­able at the place men­tioned first.

³ A cheque con­tain­ing no in­dic­a­tion of place of is­sue is deemed pay­able at the place where the drawee has its prin­cip­al place of busi­ness.

⁴ A cheque con­tain­ing no in­dic­a­tion of the place of is­sue is deemed is­sued at the place in­dic­ated to­geth­er with the name of the is­suer.