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

¹ If one coun­cil refers an item of busi­ness in its en­tirety back to the Fed­er­al Coun­cil, it must give no­tice of its de­cision to the oth­er coun­cil.

² If the oth­er coun­cil does not agree with the de­cision to refer the mat­ter back, the re­fer­ral will still take ef­fect provided the first coun­cil con­firms its ini­tial de­cision.

³ The same pro­ced­ure also ap­plies to the de­cision of a coun­cil to ad­journ the dis­cus­sion of an item of busi­ness for a peri­od that is ex­pec­ted to ex­ceed one year (sus­pen­sion of busi­ness).