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

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.