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

¹ The Fed­er­al As­sembly shall de­clare a pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive wholly or partly in­val­id if it holds that the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 139 para­graph 3 of the Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion have not been ful­filled.

² If the de­cisions of the two coun­cils in re­la­tion to the valid­ity of the pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive or of parts there­of di­verge from each oth­er and the coun­cil that has ap­proved the valid­ity of the ini­ti­at­ive con­firms its de­cision, the pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive or, de­pend­ing on the case, its dis­puted part, shall be held to be val­id.

³ If the com­prom­ise mo­tion on the vot­ing re­com­mend­a­tion is re­jec­ted, in derog­a­tion from Art­icle 93 para. 2 only the pro­vi­sion con­cerned shall be de­leted.⁹⁹