Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ Lim­it­a­tion peri­ods triggered by a com­mu­nic­a­tion or the oc­cur­rence of an event start­ing on the fol­low­ing day.

^1bis If a doc­u­ment is served by or­din­ary post on a Sat­urday, a Sunday or a pub­lic hol­i­day re­cog­nised un­der fed­er­al or can­ton­al law at the place of jur­is­dic­tion (Art. 138 para. 4), the com­mu­nic­a­tion un­der para­graph 1 shall be deemed to have been made on the fol­low­ing work­ing day.⁹⁴

² If a lim­it­a­tion peri­od is meas­ured in months, it ex­pires on the same date of the last month as the date of the month in which the peri­od star­ted to run. In the ab­sence of such a date, the peri­od ex­pires on the last day of the month.

³ If the last day of a lim­it­a­tion peri­od is a Sat­urday, a Sunday or a pub­lic hol­i­day re­cog­nised by fed­er­al or can­ton­al law at the loc­a­tion of the court, the peri­od ex­pires on the fol­low­ing work­ing day.