Federal Act
on Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy
(DEBA)¹

¹ If no dis­train­able as­sets were avail­able, the deed of dis­traint serves as the un­paid debt cer­ti­fic­ate in terms of Art­icle 149.

² If in­suf­fi­cient as­sets were avail­able in the es­tim­a­tion of the of­ficer, the deed of dis­traint shall serve the cred­it­or as a pro­vi­sion­al un­paid debt cer­ti­fic­ate and as such has the leg­al ef­fects men­tioned in Art­icles 271 num­ber 5 and 285.

³ The pro­vi­sion­al un­paid debt cer­ti­fic­ate also con­fers on the cred­it­or the right to re­quest the dis­traint of as­sets newly dis­covered with­in the one-year dead­line un­der Art­icle 88 para­graph 2. The pro­vi­sions on par­ti­cip­a­tion in dis­traint pro­ceed­ings (Arts 110 and 111) ap­ply.²⁴⁵