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This table lists the statutes, ordinances and international instruments cited in the book. Swiss acts carry their English titles as used in the text, the German abbreviation and the Fedlex SR number under which the consolidated text is published. Singapore statutes carry the official short title as it appears on Singapore Statutes Online, where every Act is published under that short title and its year of enactment. The last column names the provisions that matter most for digital assets and refers to the part of the book in which they are discussed.

The Swiss SR numbers follow the Fedlex classification. The Singapore statutes cited most often are the Payment Services Act 2019, the Securities and Futures Act 2001, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2022, the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992, the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 and the Variable Capital Companies Act 2018.¹

Since the 2020 revised edition, Singapore cites every Act with the year of its original enactment and without the former chapter numbers. The book follows that convention throughout, including in the tables below. Swiss ordinances are listed separately from the acts they implement, because a practitioner often needs the ordinance article and the act article together. The DLT Act of 25 September 2020 is not a free-standing statute. Because it amended ten federal acts, its provisions are listed under the acts that now contain them.²

Notes

Singapore Statutes Online, sso.agc.gov.sg: Payment Services Act 2019, s 1(1); Securities and Futures Act 2001, s 1 and s 2(1) (definitions of "capital markets products" and "securities"); Financial Services and Markets Act 2022 (No. 18 of 2022), assented to 25 April 2022; Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992, s 1; Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018, s 1(1); Variable Capital Companies Act 2018, s 1. ↩
Federal Act of 25 September 2020 on the Adaptation of Federal Law to Developments in Distributed Ledger Technology, AS 2021 33, in force in two tranches on 1 February 2021 and 1 August 2021; Ordinance of 18 June 2021 on the Adaptation of Federal Law to Developments in Distributed Ledger Technology, AS 2021 400. ↩

For general information only. This article does not constitute legal or tax advice, does not replace advice on an individual case and creates no lawyer-client relationship. It reflects the legal position as of October 2026.

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