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

¹ The form of a de­clar­a­tion on a cheque is de­term­ined ac­cord­ing to the law of the coun­try in whose ter­rit­ory such de­clar­a­tion was signed. However, com­pli­ance with the form­al re­quire­ments laid down by the law of the place of pay­ment is suf­fi­cient.

² Where a de­clar­a­tion on a cheque that is in­val­id pur­su­ant to the pre­vi­ous para­graph would be val­id un­der the law of the coun­try in whose ter­rit­ory a sub­sequent de­clar­a­tion is signed, the valid­ity of the later cheque de­clar­a­tion is not af­fected by any form­al de­fects of the earli­er de­clar­a­tion.

³ Sim­il­arly, a de­clar­a­tion on a cheque made by one Swiss na­tion­al abroad is val­id as against an­oth­er Swiss na­tion­al in Switzer­land provid­ing it sat­is­fies the form­al re­quire­ments laid down by Swiss law.