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

¹ Where a bill of ex­change is pay­able on a cer­tain date at a place where the cal­en­dar is dif­fer­ent from that of the place of is­sue, the ma­tur­ity date is de­term­ined ac­cord­ing to the cal­en­dar of the bill dom­i­cile.

² Where a bill drawn between two places with dif­fer­ent cal­en­dars be­comes pay­able when a spe­cified time has elapsed since it was drawn, the date on which it was drawn is con­ver­ted to the equi­val­ent date in the cal­en­dar of the dom­i­cile and the ma­tur­ity date com­puted ac­cord­ing to the lat­ter.

³ The pro­vi­sion set out in the pre­vi­ous para­graph ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis to the com­pu­ta­tion of time lim­its for present­a­tion of bills of ex­change.

⁴ The pro­vi­sions of this Art­icle do not ap­ply where a com­ment on the bill of ex­change or any oth­er term re­veals that the parties in­ten­ded oth­er­wise.