Federal Act on the Registered Partnership between Same-Sex Couples

¹While co­hab­it­ing, both part­ners rep­res­ent the part­ner­ship with re­gard to their day-to-day needs.

²A part­ner may rep­res­ent the part­ner­ship with re­gard to the oth­er needs of the uni­on only if:

a.

au­thor­ised so to do by the oth­er per­son or by court or­der; or

b.

the in­terests of the part­ner­ship brook no delay and the oth­er per­son is un­able to con­sent due to ill­ness, ab­sence or oth­er sim­il­ar reas­ons.

³Each part­ner is per­son­ally li­able for his or her own ac­tions and, to the ex­tent that these do not ex­ceed his or her powers of rep­res­ent­a­tion in a man­ner ap­par­ent to third parties, also renders the oth­er per­son jointly and sev­er­ally li­able for such ac­tions.

⁴If a part­ner ex­ceeds his or her power to rep­res­ent the part­ner­ship or proves in­cap­able of ex­er­cising it, at the oth­er part­ner’s re­quest the court may re­voke such power in whole or in part. The re­voc­a­tion is ef­fect­ive to­wards third parties act­ing in good faith only if it has been made pub­lic by or­der of the court.