Swiss Civil Procedure Code

¹The re­quest for the third party ac­tion to be ad­mit­ted must be made with the an­swers or the reply in the main pro­ceed­ings. The no­ti­fy­ing party shall set out the pray­ers to be raised against the third party to­geth­er with a brief state­ment of the grounds.

²The court shall give the op­pos­ing party and the third party the op­por­tun­ity to re­spond.

³If the third party ac­tion is ad­mit­ted, the court shall de­term­ine the time and ex­tent of the re­lated ex­change of writ­ten sub­mis­sions, sub­ject to Art­icle 125.

⁴The de­cision to ad­mit the third party ac­tion may be chal­lenged by way of ob­jec­tion.