Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ Sub­mis­sions must be filed no later than the last day of the lim­it­a­tion peri­od, either by fil­ing with the court or by hand­ing over to Swiss Post or a dip­lo­mat­ic mis­sion or con­su­lar of­fice of Switzer­land for for­ward­ing on to the court.

^1bis Sub­mis­sions that are mis­takenly filed with­in the time lim­it with a Swiss court that does not have jur­is­dic­tion are deemed to have been filed on time. If an­oth­er court in Switzer­land has jur­is­dic­tion, the court without jur­is­dic­tion shall for­ward the sub­mis­sion ex of­fi­cio.⁹⁵

² In case of elec­tron­ic sub­mis­sion, the rel­ev­ant time for com­pli­ance with a dead­line is that at which the re­ceipt is is­sued that con­firms that all the steps have been com­pleted that the party must carry out for trans­mis­sion.⁹⁶

³ Pay­ment to the court is made with­in the dead­line if the funds are handed over to Swiss Post in fa­vour of the court or deb­ited from a postal or bank ac­count in Switzer­land no later than on the last day of the lim­it­a­tion peri­od.