Federal Act
on International Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
(Mutual Assistance Act, IMAC)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 20 March 1981 (Status as of 1 July 2021)


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Art. 13 Suspension of limitation periods . Filing a criminal complaint 42

1 In pro­ceed­ings un­der this Act, the fol­low­ing shall be con­sidered to have ef­fect in Switzer­land:

a.
the sus­pen­sion of a lim­it­a­tion peri­od un­der the law of the re­quest­ing State;
b.
the fil­ing of a crim­in­al com­plaint with a for­eign au­thor­ity with­in the time lim­it provided for if this is so re­quired un­der Swiss law.

2 If a crim­in­al com­plaint is re­quired only un­der Swiss law, no sen­tence may be im­posed or ex­ecuted in Switzer­land if the vic­tim makes ob­jec­tions.

42 The sus­pen­sion of the ef­fects of the time lim­it­a­tion pro­vi­sions has been ab­ol­ished by Art. 97 ff. of the Swiss Crim­in­al Code (SR 311.0) and time lim­its for ex­e­cu­tion have been re­placed by an ex­ten­sion of the reg­u­lar time lim­it (AS 20063459; BBl 19991979).

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