Act on the Harmonization of Official Registers (Cantonal Register Harmonization Act, kRHG) - Purpose, Scope (LCHR)

1. This law aims to simplify the collection of data for statistics and the exchange of personal data between registers.

2. It applies to the registers according to Art. 2 RHG as well as to other official cantonal and communal registers designated by legislation or by the government council.

1. The Government Council may request an augmentation of the structural survey and thematic sample surveys from the Confederation in connection with a federal census (Art. 8 Census Act).

1. The Directorate executes the legislation on register harmonization and the census, insofar as tasks are not expressly delegated to another authority. It is particularly responsible for

1. the provision of data to the federal government;

2. the coordination, execution, and quality control of the harmonization of registers as the competent office according to Art. 9 RHG;

3. the determination of data to which authorized parties may electronically access according to Art. 7.

1. The political municipalities maintain the registers prescribed by legislation electronically.

2. They transmit the data of their registers to the cantonal data platform and update them.

3. The government council determines which software is to be used by the municipalities for maintaining registers that are based on federal or cantonal law.

1. The canton operates a cantonal data platform (CDP) as the central administration for personal, building, and housing information.

2. The cantonal data platform serves all authorized users as a central file for retrieval or reporting procedures, as well as for statistical purposes.

3. The government council may delegate the management of the cantonal data platform to third parties.

1. In the cantonal data platform, the data of natural and legal persons, along with their supplementary information, as well as building and apartment data, are managed and stored.

2. The entry for a natural person contains the data according to Art. 6 RHG, as well as

1. the DPF number;

2. access restrictions according to Art. 15 of the Cantonal Data Protection Act (kDSG);

3. a personal identifier for the spouse or registered partner;

4. * for persons under guardianship or custodianship, a personal identifier for the responsible person.

3. The entry for a legal entity contains the following data, insofar as they are available

1. company name and address;

2. federally provided personal identifiers or company numbers.

4. The government council may prescribe the inclusion of additional data.

1. The cantonal authorities, the municipalities, and third parties entrusted with the fulfillment of state tasks shall have electronic access, via a retrieval procedure, to the data on the cantonal data platform that is necessary for the fulfillment of their legal duties.

2. The data is available free of charge to all those entitled to access.

3. The Directorate shall decide in individual cases who has electronic access to which data.

1. The authority responsible for maintaining a register must immediately transfer all mutations related to data management to the cantonal data platform.

2. The transfer must be carried out exclusively through the delivery of data in encrypted electronic form.

3. The transfer to the cantonal data platform does not relieve the responsible authorities of any obligation to maintain or preserve data in other data collections.

1. The provisions of the FDPA apply to the processing of data.

1. The municipalities maintain a cantonal building and dwelling register recognized in accordance with the specifications of the Confederation and the Directorate, including a directory of all street names.

2. In the cantonal building register, buildings with and without residential use, provisional accommodations, as well as special constructions are recorded in accordance with the definitions and requirements of the attributes catalog of the Swiss building and dwelling register.

3. The Government Council may prescribe the maintenance of additional attributes.

1. The initial and comprehensive assignment and notification of the insurance number pursuant to Art. 50e AHVG is to be requested by the registry-keeping offices according to Art. 2 para. 2 RHG.

2. The authorities entrusted with the enforcement of cantonal law may systematically use the insurance number pursuant to AHVG for task-related purposes. It may be stored as far as necessary for the fulfillment of statutory tasks.

1. The canton and the municipalities bear the costs incurred within their area of responsibility.

2. The government council shall issue the necessary regulations concerning the compensation of the municipalities for the establishment and updating of the building and housing identifiers from the federal contribution to the maintenance of the registers by the cantons.

1. The canton bears the costs for an increase in the structural survey and the thematic sample surveys as part of the censuses.

2. The costs for the establishment and operation, as well as for the expansion of the cantonal data platform, are borne equally by the canton and the municipalities.

1. The Government Council shall enact the provisions necessary for the implementation of this law.

1. This law is subject to the optional referendum.

2. The government council shall determine the effective date.

3. This law is to be communicated to the Federal Department of Home Affairs.