Swiss Civil Code

¹ Each can­ton shall ap­point a su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity.

² In par­tic­u­lar, the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity shall per­form the fol­low­ing tasks:

1.

it su­per­vises the re­gister of­fices;

2.

it sup­ports and ad­vises the re­gister of­fices;

3.

it as­sists in main­tain­ing the civil re­gister and in car­ry­ing out the pre­par­at­ory pro­ced­ure for wed­dings;

4.

it is­sues dir­ect­ives on re­cog­ni­tion and re­cord­ing of mat­ters re­lat­ing to civil status that oc­cur abroad and of for­eign ju­di­cial and ad­min­is­trat­ive de­cisions con­cern­ing civil status;

5.

it provides for the ba­sic and con­tinu­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing of per­sons work­ing in the civil re­gister ser­vice.

³ The Con­fed­er­a­tion is re­spons­ible for over­sight. It may have re­course to can­ton­al ap­peal pro­ced­ures against the de­cisions of the re­gis­trars and the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies.⁷²