Federal Act
on the Free Movement of Lawyers
(Lawyers Act, FMLA)

of 23 June 2000 (Status as of 23 January 2023)


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Art. 19 Statute of limitations

1 The right to bring dis­cip­lin­ary pro­ceed­ings is sub­ject to a stat­ute of lim­it­a­tions of one year from the time that the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity learned of the in­cid­ent in ques­tion.

2 This peri­od shall be in­ter­rup­ted by any in­vest­ig­at­ive meas­ure taken by the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity.

3 The right to bring dis­cip­lin­ary pro­ceed­ings is sub­ject in every case to a stat­ute of lim­it­a­tions of ten years from the time that the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity learned of the in­cid­ent in ques­tion.

4 If the breach of the pro­fes­sion­al rules con­sti­tutes a crim­in­al of­fence, the longer lim­it­a­tion peri­od provided for un­der the crim­in­al law ap­plies.

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