Federal Act
on the Federal Assembly
(Parliament Act, ParlA)

The fol­low­ing per­sons may not be mem­bers of the Fed­er­al As­sembly:

a.

per­sons that it has elec­ted or whose ap­point­ment it has con­firmed;

b.

judges of the fed­er­al courts whom it has not elec­ted;

c.¹⁶

staff of the cent­ral and de­cent­ral­ised Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion, the Par­lia­ment­ary Ser­vices and the fed­er­al courts, the sec­ret­ari­at of the Su­per­vis­ory Au­thor­ity for the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of Switzer­land, the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of Switzer­land as well as mem­bers of ex­tra-par­lia­ment­ary com­mis­sions with de­cision-mak­ing powers, un­less spe­cif­ic stat­utory pro­vi­sions provide oth­er­wise;

d.

mem­bers of the armed forces com­mand staff;

e.

mem­bers of the man­age­ment or­gans of or­gan­isa­tions or en­tit­ies un­der pub­lic or private law that do not form part of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion but which are en­trus­ted with ad­min­is­trat­ive tasks, where the Con­fed­er­a­tion has con­trol there­over;

f.

per­sons that rep­res­ent the Con­fed­er­a­tion in or­gan­isa­tions or en­tit­ies un­der pub­lic or private law that do not form part of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion but which are en­trus­ted with ad­min­is­trat­ive tasks, where the Con­fed­er­a­tion has con­trol there­over.