Government and Administration Organisation Act
(GAOA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil, in dir­ect ap­plic­a­tion of Art­icle 184 para­graph 3 of the Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion, may when ne­ces­sary is­sue an or­din­ance to safe­guard the in­terests of the coun­try.

² It shall lim­it the peri­od of valid­ity of the or­din­ance ap­pro­pri­ately; the peri­od of valid­ity may not ex­ceed four years.

³ It may ex­tend the peri­od of valid­ity once. In this case, the or­din­ance ceases to ap­ply six months after the be­gin­ning of the ex­ten­sion if the Fed­er­al Coun­cil fails to present the Fed­er­al As­sembly with a bill es­tab­lish­ing a leg­al basis for the con­tent of the or­din­ance.

⁴ The or­din­ance ceases to ap­ply:

a.

if the bill men­tioned in para­graph 3 is re­jec­ted by the Fed­er­al As­sembly; or

b.

at the latest with in­tro­duc­tion of the leg­al basis provided for in para­graph 3.