Federal Act
on Administrative Procedure
(Administrative Procedure Act, APA)¹

¹ This Act ap­plies to the pro­ced­ure in ad­min­is­trat­ive mat­ters that are to be dealt with by rul­ings of fed­er­al ad­min­is­trat­ive au­thor­it­ies of first in­stance or on ap­peal.

² Au­thor­it­ies in terms of para­graph 1 are:

a.⁵

the Fed­er­al Coun­cil, its de­part­ments, the Fed­er­al Chan­cellery and the ser­vices sub­or­din­ate to it, and busi­nesses, in­sti­tu­tions and oth­er pub­lic of­fices of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion;

b.⁶

or­gans of the Fed­er­al As­sembly and of the fed­er­al courts re­spons­ible for rul­ings in the first in­stance and ap­peal de­cisions in ac­cord­ance with the Pub­lic Of­fi­cials Act of 30 June 1927⁷;

c.

autonom­ous fed­er­al in­sti­tu­tions or busi­nesses;

c^bis.⁸ the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court;

d.

the fed­er­al com­mit­tees;

e.

oth­er au­thor­it­ies or or­gan­isa­tions out­side the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­tra­tion, provided they are is­su­ing an rul­ing in ful­fil­ment of the fed­er­al pub­lic law du­ties as­signed to them.

³ Only Art­icles 34−38 and 61 para­graphs 2 and 3 on the no­ti­fic­a­tion of rul­ings and Art­icle 55 para­graphs 2 and 4 on the with­draw­al of sus­pens­ive ef­fect ap­ply to the pro­ced­ure of the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies of fi­nal in­stance that is­sue rul­ings based on fed­er­al pub­lic law that are not fi­nal rul­ings. Art­icle 97 of the Fed­er­al Act of 20 Decem­ber 1946⁹ on the Old-Age and Sur­viv­or’s In­sur­ance re­lat­ing to the with­draw­al of the sus­pens­ive ef­fect of ap­peals against rul­ings is­sued by the com­pens­a­tion funds is re­served.^{10 11}