Key legal question
Whether a debt-discharge request filed after the one-year period under Art. 88(2) SchKG is admissible.
Extracted holding
The request had to be rejected ex officio for lack of a protectable legal interest because the payment order had lost its enforcement effect by the time the request was filed.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 88(2) SchKG, the right to pursue continuation lapses one year after service of the payment order. A objection by the debtor does not interrupt that period; it is interrupted only by filing the action or initiating debt-discharge proceedings. Once the period expired, no valid basis for continuation remained, so the applicant could no longer derive any practical benefit from discharge.