Cultural Property Transfer Act (CPTA)
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Art. 3 Federal Register
1 Cultural property owned by the Confederation that is of essential importance to cultural heritage shall be registered in the Federal Register. 2 Registration has the following effect: a. the cultural property may neither be acquired by adverse possession nor be acquired in good faith; b. the right to recovery is not subject to a statute of limitations; c. the definitive export of the cultural property from Switzerland is prohibited. 3 The entry in the Federal Register relating to an item of cultural property may be removed if: a. the cultural property is no longer of essential importance to cultural heritage; b. the cultural property is to be made part of an ensemble; c. the Confederation loses or waives its ownership of the cultural property. 4 The Specialised Body shall maintain and publish the Federal Register in the form of an electronic database.
Art. 4 Cantonal registers
1 In order to simplify border controls, cantons that regulate the export of cultural property on their territories may link the following to the federal database: a. registers of their cultural property; b. registers of privately-owned cultural property, provided the owners have given their consent thereto. 2 The cantons may declare that cultural property in their registers may neither be acquired by adverse possession nor acquired in good faith and that the right to recovery is not subject to a statute of limitations.