Federal Act
on the Harmonisation of the Register of Residents
and of other Official Registers of Persons
(Register Harmonisation Act, RHA)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 23 June 2006 (Status as of 1 January 2021)


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Art. 4 Task of the Federal Office

1 The Fed­er­al Of­fice defines the iden­ti­fi­ers and at­trib­utes in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 6 let­ters b–t, 7 and 13 para­graph 2 as well as the cor­res­pond­ing at­trib­ute char­ac­ter­ist­ics, no­men­clatures and cod­ing keys. The re­cord­ing of data re­lat­ing to civil status in the re­gisters is gov­erned by Art­icles 39–49 of the Civil Code9.

2 In de­vis­ing the defin­i­tions, the Fed­er­al Of­fice takes ac­count of the de­mands and needs of the can­tons and com­munes as well as of the fed­er­al agen­cies that main­tain or rely on the re­gisters un­der Art­icle 2 para­graph 1.

3 It provides the can­tons, the com­munes and the fed­er­al agen­cies un­der Art­icle 2 para­graph 1 with the re­quired defin­i­tions, no­men­clatures and cod­ing keys free of charge.

4 It reg­u­larly pub­lishes an of­fi­cial cata­logue of at­trib­utes that con­tains the at­trib­ute char­ac­ter­ist­ics as well as the no­men­clatures and cod­ing keys.

9 SR 210

BGE

143 III 3 (5A_113/2016) from 27. Oktober 2016
Regeste: Art. 39 Abs. 1 und 2 Ziff. 3, Art. 48 Abs. 2 Ziff. 1 ZGB; Art. 8 lit. c ZStV; Eintragung des Rufnamens im Personenstandsregister. Im Personenstandsregister werden amtliche Namen beurkundet. Der Rufname ist kein amtlicher Name und wird im Fall, dass eine Person mehrere Vornamen trägt, im Personenstandsregister nicht bezeichnet (E. 3).

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