Swiss Civil Code

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil is­sues the pro­vi­sions on im­ple­ment­a­tion.

² In par­tic­u­lar it reg­u­lates:

1.

the re­gisters to be main­tained and the in­form­a­tion to be re­cor­ded;

2.

the use of the OASI num­ber⁷⁶ in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 50c of the Fed­er­al Act of 20 Decem­ber 1946⁷⁷ on the Old-Age and Sur­viv­ors' In­sur­ance for the pur­pose of elec­tron­ic data ex­change between of­fi­cial re­gisters of per­sons;

3.

the main­ten­ance of the re­gister;

4.

su­per­vi­sion.⁷⁸

³ To en­sure tech­nic­ally re­li­able im­ple­ment­a­tion the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may set min­im­um re­quire­ments for the ba­sic and con­tinu­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing of per­son­nel in the civil re­gister ser­vice and for the func­tion of re­gis­trar.

⁴ It de­term­ines the fees charged by the civil re­gister ser­vice.

⁵ It de­term­ines the con­di­tions on which it is per­miss­ible by elec­tron­ic means:

1.

to provide civil status in­form­a­tion;

2.

to make de­clar­a­tions con­cern­ing civil status;

3.

to make no­ti­fic­a­tions and provide ex­tracts from the civil re­gister.⁷⁹