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

¹ The re­quest and the doc­u­ments sup­port­ing it shall be sub­mit­ted to the de­fend­ant and to his leg­al ad­viser. When form­ally present­ing the de­fend­ant with the ar­rest war­rant with a view to ex­tra­di­tion, the can­ton­al au­thor­ity shall as­cer­tain if the de­fend­ant is identic­al with the per­son men­tioned in the re­quest. It shall ex­plain to him the con­di­tions of ex­tra­di­tion and of sim­pli­fied ex­tra­di­tion and ad­vise him of the right to ap­peal, to ap­point a leg­al ad­viser or to have a leg­al ad­viser of­fi­cially ap­poin­ted.⁹⁴

² The de­fend­ant shall be ques­tioned briefly about his per­son­al cir­cum­stances, and es­pe­cially his na­tion­al­ity and re­la­tion­ship with the re­quest­ing State, and asked if and for what reas­ons he raises ob­jec­tions to the ar­rest war­rant or his ex­tra­di­tion. His leg­al ad­viser may as­sist in this hear­ing.

³ If the ex­tra­dited per­son is to be pro­sec­uted for oth­er of­fences or re-ex­tra­dited to a third State, the Fed­er­al Of­fice shall ar­range for him to be ques­tioned on the re­cord in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2 by a ju­di­cial au­thor­ity of the re­quest­ing State.