Federal Act on the Registered Partnership between Same-Sex Couples

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Art. 5 Application

1The ap­plic­a­tion for a re­gistered part­ner­ship must be sub­mit­ted to the civil re­gister of­fice at the dom­i­cile of one of the two part­ners.

2The two part­ners must ap­pear in per­son. If this is clearly un­reas­on­able for them, the pre­lim­in­ary pro­ced­ure may be con­duc­ted in writ­ing.

3The two part­ners shall sub­mit the ne­ces­sary doc­u­ments. They must ex­plain in per­son to the civil re­gister of­fice that they meet all the con­di­tions for re­gis­ter­ing a part­ner­ship.

4Part­ners who are not Swiss cit­izens must provide evid­ence dur­ing the pre­lim­in­ary pro­ced­ure that their res­id­ence in Switzer­land is law­ful.1

1 In­ser­ted by No II 2 of the FA of 12 June 2009 (Pro­hib­i­tion of Mar­riage in cases of Un­law­ful Res­id­ence), in force since 1 Jan. 2011 (AS 2010 3057; BBl 2008 2467 2481).

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