IV. Business management and representation
1. Delegation
1 The articles of association may authorise the general assembly of members or the directors to delegate responsibility for managing the society’s business or parts thereof and for representing the society to one or more persons, business managers or executive officers, who need not be members of the cooperative.
2 A cooperative must be able to be represented by a person who is resident in Switzerland. This person must be a director, a business manager or an executive officer. This person must have access to the register under Article 837.2
1 Amended by No I 3 of the FA of 16 Dec. 2005 (Law on Limited Liability Companies and Amendments to the Law on Companies limited by Shares, Cooperatives, the Commercial Register and Business Names), in force since 1 Jan. 2008 (AS 2007 4791; BBl 2002 3148, 2004 3969).
2 Amended by No I 2 of the FA of 12 Dec. 2014 on the Implementation of the revised recommendations 2012 of the Financial Action Task Force, in force since 1 July 2015 (AS 2015 1389; BBl 2014 605).
XI. Régime exceptionnel des sociétés d’assurance
1 Les sociétés d’assurance concessionnaires de plus de mille membres peuvent transférer, en vertu d’une clause statutaire, tout ou partie des attributions de l’assemblée générale à leur administration.
2 Ne peuvent être transférées les attributions de l’assemblée générale relatives à l’introduction ou à l’extension du régime des versements supplémentaires, à la dissolution de la société, à sa fusion, à sa scission et à la transformation de sa forme juridique.1
1 Nouvelle teneur selon l’annexe ch. 2 de la LF du 3 oct. 2003 sur la fusion, en vigueur depuis le 1er juil. 2004 (RO 2004 2617; FF 2000 3995).
