Key legal question
Whether the president of the guardianship authority was competent to order the commitment
Extracted holding
The initial order suffered from a formal competence defect, because under federal law the guardianship authority itself was competent; however, the defect was cured when the authority later approved the order.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 397b ZGB assigns competence to the guardianship authority; the cantonal emergency rule for the mayor did not apply because the special cantonal rule for urgent cases excluded it. The later approval removed the formal defect.