Federal Act
on Second Homes
(Second Homes Act, SHA)

¹ The au­thor­ity re­spons­ible for the res­id­ents’ re­gister of­fice in a com­mune with a pro­por­tion of second homes in ex­cess of 20 per cent shall no­ti­fy the build­ing au­thor­ity of per­sons who:

a.

move home with­in the com­mune;

b.

move out of the com­mune; or

c.

re­lo­cate per­man­ently to an­oth­er com­mune.

² The land re­gistry shall no­ti­fy the build­ing au­thor­ity of the re­cord­ing in the land re­gister of any trans­fer of own­er­ship of prop­erty loc­ated in a com­mune with a pro­por­tion of second homes in ex­cess of 20 per cent in re­spect of which a re­stric­tion on use has been noted in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 7 para­graph 1. The can­tons shall reg­u­late the no­ti­fic­a­tion pro­ced­ure.

³ The in­form­a­tion re­quired from the res­id­ents’ re­gister of­fices and the land re­gister in or­der to im­ple­ment Art­icles 4 and 7 may be re­cor­ded in the Fed­er­al Re­gister of Build­ings and Dwell­ings. The in­form­a­tion shall be re­cor­ded by the au­thor­ity com­pet­ent for up­dat­ing this re­gister.