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

¹ Where the own­er of a trad­ing, man­u­fac­tur­ing or oth­er com­mer­cial es­tab­lish­ment ap­points a per­son to rep­res­ent him in man­aging the af­fairs of the busi­ness as a whole or in car­ry­ing out cer­tain trans­ac­tions on be­half of the busi­ness without grant­ing that per­son a re­gistered power of at­tor­ney, the agency au­thor­ity of the rep­res­ent­at­ive ex­tends to all activ­it­ies that fall with­in the nor­mal scope of the com­mer­cial op­er­a­tions of the busi­ness or are nor­mally con­nec­ted with the trans­ac­tions in ques­tion.

² However, a com­mer­cial agent is not au­thor­ised to sign bills of ex­change, take out loans or con­duct lit­ig­a­tion un­less ex­pressly gran­ted such powers.