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

Ir­re­spect­ive of the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 7 para­graph 2 and Art­icles 8, 9 or 26, a build­ing per­mit ap­plic­a­tion for a new home may be au­thor­ised without re­stric­tion on use un­der Art­icle 7 para­graph 1 if:

a.

the com­pet­ent build­ing au­thor­ity, in re­sponse to a suf­fi­ciently de­tailed pre­lim­in­ary re­quest, provided a writ­ten an­swer be­fore 18 Decem­ber 2007 which:

1.

con­tained the es­sen­tial ele­ments of the build­ing per­mit as defined in Art­icle 26 para­graph 1 let­ter b,

2.

con­firmed that the pro­ject was eli­gible for au­thor­isa­tion;

b.

it was not pos­sible to grant the build­ing per­mit be­fore 11 March 2012 be­cause the own­er was pre­ven­ted from sub­mit­ting a build­ing per­mit ap­plic­a­tion on time through no fault of his or her own; and

c.

the oth­er re­quire­ments for grant­ing the build­ing per­mit are ful­filled.