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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0712.00023.] The purpose of this paper is to outline a general scheme for construction of zero-range interactions with an internal structure. This construction can be applied to various situations of physical interest. Here we concentrate on the mathematical aspects of the problem. A zero-range interaction with an internal structure is usually constructed as a selfadjoint extension of a direct sum of operators; typically one of them is a differential opeerator and the other is an abstract one. The standard von Neumann theory works well for differential operators, though it is not very suitable for concrete calculations. A serious difficulty arises, however, if the abstract operator is not densely defined. The purpose of our construction is twofold: {(i)} to reformulate the standard theory in terms of boundary conditions making it better adapted to practical calculations, {(ii)} what is more important, to generalize it in such a way that it can handle also non- densely defined operators. Notice that it is necessary once we want to treat finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces.