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

¹ This Act ap­plies to ap­plic­a­tions for build­ing per­mits that are con­sidered at first in­stance or on ap­peal after this Act comes in­to force.

² If a build­ing per­mit that was gran­ted and took leg­al ef­fect be­fore 11 March 2012 re­quires the ex­e­cu­tion of the work to be post­poned pending a de­cision re­lat­ing to quotas, the com­pet­ent build­ing au­thor­ity may au­thor­ise the work to be­gin at the latest with­in two years of this Act com­ing in­to force provided the build­ing per­mit did not spe­cify a peri­od with­in which the work must start or post­poned the start of the work for a peri­od that ends no later than two years after this Act comes in­to force.

³ If the pro­por­tion of second homes in a com­mune falls to 20 per cent or less, the build­ing au­thor­ity shall, at the re­quest of the own­er, re­voke any re­stric­tion on use un­der Art­icle 7 para­graph 1 and in­struct the land re­gister to de­lete the rel­ev­ant note on the land re­gister fo­lio for the prop­erty con­cerned.

⁴ Build­ing per­mits that were gran­ted and took leg­al ef­fect be­fore 31 Decem­ber 2012 un­der the rel­ev­ant can­ton­al pro­ced­ur­al law shall re­main val­id.

⁵ Build­ing per­mits that were gran­ted and took leg­al ef­fect in ac­cord­ance with rel­ev­ant can­ton­al pro­ced­ur­al law after 1 Janu­ary 2013 but be­fore this Act came in­to force shall re­main val­id provided they are based on the Or­din­ance of 22 Au­gust 2012¹¹ on Second Homes.