Swiss Civil Code

¹ The res­id­en­tial or nurs­ing in­sti­tu­tion may re­strict the free­dom of move­ment of the per­son lack­ing ca­pa­city of judge­ment only if less strin­gent meas­ures are clearly in­suf­fi­cient or prove to be so and the meas­ure serves to:

1.

pre­vent ser­i­ous danger to the life or phys­ic­al in­teg­rity of the cli­ent or third parties; or

2.

rem­edy ser­i­ous dis­rup­tion to life in and around the in­sti­tu­tion.

² Be­fore his or her free­dom of move­ment is re­stric­ted, it shall be ex­plained to the per­son con­cerned what is hap­pen­ing, why the meas­ure has been ordered, how long it will prob­ably last and who will be re­spons­ible for the per­son con­cerned dur­ing this peri­od. The fore­go­ing does not ap­ply in emer­gen­cies.

³ An or­der to re­strict free­dom of move­ment shall be re­voked as soon as pos­sible and in every case re­viewed reg­u­larly to as­cer­tain wheth­er it is still re­quired.