Swiss Criminal Procedure Code (Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)
Title 1 Scope of Application and Principles
Chapter 1 Scope of Application and the Administration of Criminal Justice (1 - 2)
Chapter 2 Principles of Criminal Procedure Law (3 - 11)
Title 2 Criminal Justice Authorities
Section 1 General Provisions (12 - 14)
Section 2 Prosecution Authorities (15 - 17)
Section 3 Courts (18 - 21)
Chapter 2 Material Jurisdiction
Section 1 Extent of Federal and Cantonal Jurisdiction (22 - 28)
Section 2 Jurisdiction where two or more Offences coincide (29 - 30)
Chapter 3 Place of Jurisdiction
Section 1 Principles (31 - 32)
Section 2 Special Jurisdiction (33 - 38)
Section 3 Procedure for Establishing Jurisdiction (39 - 42)
Chapter 4 Domestic Mutual Assistance
Section 1 General Provisions (43 - 48)
Section 2 Procedural Acts at the Request of the Confederation or of another Canton (49 - 51)
Section 3 Procedural Acts in another Canton (52 - 53)
Chapter 5 International Mutual Assistance (54 - 55)
Chapter 6 Recusal (56 - 60)
Chapter 7 Director of Proceedings (61 - 65)
Chapter 8 General Procedural Regulations
Section 1 Requirement of Oral Proceedings; Language (66 - 68)
Section 2 Public Proceedings (69 - 72)
Section 3 Confidentiality, Information to the Public, Communications to Authorities (73 - 75)
Section 4 Records (76 - 79)
Section 5 Decisions (80 - 83)
Section 6 Notice and Service of Decisions (84 - 88)
Section 7 Time Limits and Deadlines (89 - 94)
Section 8 Data Processing (95 - 99)
Section 9 Management, Inspection and Retention of Case Files (100 - 103)
Title 3 Parties and Other Persons involved in the Proceedings
Section 1 Definition and Status (104 - 108)
Section 2 Procedural Acts by the Parties (109 - 110)
Chapter 2 The Accused (111 - 114)
Chapter 3 Persons suffering Harm, Victims and Private Claimants
Section 1 Persons suffering Harm (115 - 115)
Section 2 Victims (116 - 117)
Section 3 Private Claimants (118 - 121)
Section 4 Civil Claims (122 - 126)
Section 1 Principles (127 - 127)
Section 2 Defence Lawyers (128 - 135)
Section 3 Legal Aid for the Private Claimant (136 - 138)
Section 1 Taking Evidence and Admissibility of Evidence (139 - 141)
Section 2 Examination Hearings (142 - 146)
Section 3 Rights to Participate in the Taking of Evidence (147 - 148)
Section 4 Protective Measures (149 - 156)
Chapter 2 Examination Hearings with the Accused (157 - 161)
Section 1 General Provisions (162 - 167)
Section 2 Rights to Refuse to Testify (168 - 176)
Section 3 Examination Hearings with Witnesses (177 - 177)
Chapter 4 Persons providing Information (178 - 181)
Chapter 5 Authorised Experts (182 - 191)
Chapter 6 Material Evidence (192 - 195)
Chapter 1 General Provisions (196 - 200)
Chapter 2 Summonses, Enforced Appearances and Tracing of Wanted Persons or Property
Section 1 Summonses (201 - 206)
Section 2 Appearance enforced by the Police (207 - 209)
Section 3 Tracing of Wanted Persons or Property (210 - 211)
Chapter 3 Deprivation of Liberty, Remand and Preventive Detention
Section 1 General Provisions (212 - 214)
Section 2 Police Powers to Stop and of Pursuit (215 - 216)
Section 3 Arrest (217 - 219)
General Provisions (220 - 223)
Section 5 Remand (224 - 228)
Section 6 Preventive Detention (229 - 233)
Section 7 Execution of Remand and Preventive Detention (234 - 236)
Section 8 Alternative Measures (237 - 240)
Chapter 4 Searches and Examinations
Section 1 General Provisions (241 - 243)
Section 2 Searches of Premises (244 - 245)
Section 3 Search of Records and Recordings (246 - 248)
Section 4 Searches of Persons and Property (249 - 250)
Section 5 Examination of Persons (251 - 252)
Section 6 Examination of Dead Bodies (253 - 254)
Chapter 5 DNA Analyses (255 - 259)
Chapter 6 Recording Identification Data, Handwriting and Voice Samples (260 - 262)
Chapter 7 Seizure (263 - 268)
Chapter 8 Covert Surveillance Measures
Section 1 Surveillance of Post and Telecommunications (269 - 279)
Section 2 Surveillance using Technical Surveillance Devices (280 - 281)
Section 3 Observation (282 - 283)
Section 4 Surveillance of Banking Transactions (284 - 285)
Section 5 Undercover Investigations (285 - 298)
Section 5a Undercover Enquiries (298 - 298)
Title 6 Preliminary Proceedings
Chapter 1 General Provisions (299 - 305)
Chapter 2 Police Enquiries (306 - 307)
Chapter 3 Investigation by the Public Prosecutor
Section 1 Duties of the Public Prosecutor (308 - 310)
Section 2 Conduct of the Investigation (311 - 315)
Section 3 Private Settlements (316 - 316)
Section 4 Conclusion of the Investigation (317 - 318)
Chapter 4 Abandoning Proceedings and Bringing Charges
Section 1 Abandoning Proceedings (319 - 323)
Section 2 Bringing Charges (324 - 327)
Title 7 Main Proceedings of First Instance
Chapter 1 Pending Status, Preparation for the Main Hearing, General Provisions on the Main Hearing (328 - 334)
Chapter 2 Conduct of the Main Hearing
Section 1 Court and Persons involved in the Proceedings (335 - 338)
Section 2 Commencement of the Main Hearing (339 - 340)
Section 3 Procedure for Taking Evidence (341 - 345)
Section 4 Party Submissions and Conclusion of the Party Hearing (346 - 347)
Section 5 Judgment (348 - 351)
Chapter 1 Summary Penalty Order Procedure, Contravention Procedure
Section 1 Summary Penalty Order Procedure (352 - 356)
Section 2 Contravention Proceedings (357 - 357)
Chapter 2 Accelerated Proceedings (358 - 362)
Chapter 3 Procedure for Separate Subsequent Court Decisions (363 - 365)
Chapter 4 Procedure in the Absence of the Accused
Section 1 Requirements and Conduct (366 - 367)
Section 2 Re-assessment (368 - 371)
Chapter 5 Separate Measures Procedures
Section 1 Good Behaviour Bond Order (372 - 373)
Section 2 Procedure where the Accused is not legally responsible due to a Mental Disorder (374 - 375)
Section 3 Separate Forfeiture Proceedings (376 - 378)
Chapter 1 General Provisions (379 - 392)
Chapter 2 Objections (393 - 397)
Section 1 General Provisions (398 - 402)
Section 2 Procedure (403 - 407)
Section 3 Appeal Decision (408 - 409)
Chapter 4 Review (410 - 415)
Title 10 Procedural Costs, Damages and Satisfaction
Chapter 1 General Provisions (416 - 421)
Chapter 2 Procedural Costs (422 - 428)
Chapter 3 Damages and Satisfaction
Section 1 Accused (429 - 432)
Section 2 Private Claimant and Third Parties (433 - 434)
Section 3 Special Provisions (435 - 436)
Title 11 Legal Effect and Execution of Decisions in Criminal Proceedings
Chapter 1 Legal Effect (437 - 438)
Chapter 2 Enforcement of Decisions in Criminal Proceedings (439 - 444)
Chapter 1 Implementing Provisions (445 - 445)
Chapter 2 Amendment of Legislation (446 - 447)
Chapter 3 Transitional Provisions
Section 1 General Procedural Provisions (448 - 449)
Section 2 Main Proceedings of First Instance and Special Proceedings (450 - 452)
Section 3 Appellate Proceedings (453 - 454)
Section 4 Rejections of Summary Penalty Orders; Private Prosecutions (455 - 456)
Section 5 Transitional Provision to the Amendment of 28 September 2012 (456 - 456)
Chapter 4 Referendum and Commencement (457 - 457)
Repeal and Amendment of Current Legislation
2. Coordination of Number 9 of Annex 1 with the new Victim Support Act