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

¹ Where de­fects arise in the ob­ject which are not at­trib­ut­able to the ten­ant or less­ee and which he is not ob­liged to rem­edy at his own ex­pense, or where he is pre­ven­ted from us­ing the ob­ject as con­trac­tu­ally agreed, he may re­quire that the land­lord or lessor:

a.

re­pair the ob­ject;

b.

re­duce the rent pro­por­tion­ately;

c.

pay dam­ages;

d.

as­sume re­spons­ib­il­ity for lit­ig­a­tion against a third party.

² In ad­di­tion, a ten­ant of im­mov­able prop­erty may pay rent on de­pos­it rather than to the land­lord.