Commentaries: Art. 48

The Federal Council issues the provisions on implementation.
In particular it regulates:
the registers to be maintained and the information to be recorded;
the use of the OASI number¹in accordance with Article 50c of the Federal Act of 20 December 1946²on the Old-Age and Survivors' Insurance for the purpose of electronic data exchange between official registers of persons;
the maintenance of the register;
supervision.³
To ensure technically reliable implementation the Federal Council may set minimum requirements for the basic and continuing education and training of personnel in the civil register service and for the function of registrar.
It determines the fees charged by the civil register service.
It determines the conditions on which it is permissible by electronic means:
to provide civil status information;
to make declarations concerning civil status;
to make notifications and provide extracts from the civil register.⁴

Term in accordance with Annex No 2 of the FA of 18 Dec. 2020 (Systematic Use of the OASI Number by Authorities), in force since 1 Jan. 2022 (AS 2021 758;BBl 2019 7359). This modification has been made in the provision specified in the AS. ↩
SR 831.10 ↩
Amended by Annex No 2 of the Register Harmonisation Act of 23 June 2006, in force since 1 Jan. 2008 (AS 2006 4165;BBl 2006 427). ↩
Inserted by No I of the FA of 5 Oct. 2001 (Electronic Civil Register), in force since 1 July 2004 (AS 2004 2911;BBl 2001 1639). ↩

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