Federal Act
on the Compilations of Federal Legislation
and the Federal Gazette
(Publications Act, PublA)

¹ The texts in terms of Art­icles 2–4 shall be pub­lished in the AS at least five days be­fore they come in­to force.

² Agree­ments and de­crees un­der Art­icles 3 and 4 whose com­mence­ment date is not yet known at the time of their ap­prov­al shall be pub­lished im­me­di­ately after the an­nounce­ment of their com­mence­ment date.

³ A text shall be pub­lished by way of ex­cep­tion on the day it comes in­to force at the latest (emer­gency pub­lic­a­tion) if this is re­quired either to en­sure its ef­fect­ive­ness.

⁴ If the pub­lic­a­tions plat­form is not avail­able, the texts shall be pub­lished by oth­er means (ex­cep­tion­al pub­lic­a­tion).