¹ The Fed­er­al Act of 22 Janu­ary 1892¹⁵⁶ on Ex­tra­di­tion to For­eign States is hereby re­pealed.

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¹ Ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings which are pending on the com­mence­ment of this Act shall be com­pleted in ac­cord­ance with the pro­ced­ur­al pro­vi­sions of the Fed­er­al Act of 22 Janu­ary 1892¹⁵⁸ on Ex­tra­di­tion to For­eign States.

² The pro­sec­u­tion and the en­force­ment of de­cisions in ac­cord­ance with Parts Four and Five of this Act may be taken over only if the of­fence to which the re­quest refers was com­mit­ted after the com­mence­ment of this Act.

³ Re­quests for ex­tra­di­tion or oth­er as­sist­ance in re­la­tion to of­fences which un­der Art­icle 75^bis of the Swiss Crim­in­al Code¹⁵⁹ or Art­icle 56^bis of the Mil­it­ary Crim­in­al Code¹⁶⁰ are not sub­ject to a time lim­it may be gran­ted by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil even if, on the date that these pro­vi­sions come in­to force, the pro­sec­u­tion or the pen­alty is time barred.

The pro­vi­sions of the amend­ment of 4 Oc­to­ber 1996 to this Act ap­ply to all pro­ceed­ings pending when such pro­vi­sions come in­to force.

The pre­vi­ous law ap­plies to ap­peal pro­ceed­ings against rul­ings is­sued by the court of first in­stance be­fore this amend­ment comes in­to force.

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall is­sue the im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions.

² It may es­tab­lish a stand­ing com­mit­tee to ex­am­ine the ques­tion of wheth­er the ser­i­ous­ness of the of­fence jus­ti­fies the dis­clos­ure of clas­si­fied in­form­a­tion. The mem­bers of the com­mit­tee are bound to secrecy like of­fi­cials of the Con­fed­er­a­tion.

¹ This Act is sub­ject to the op­tion­al ref­er­en­dum.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the com­mence­ment date.

Com­mence­ment date: 1 Janu­ary 1983¹⁶³