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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)

Art. 55 Competence

1 After set­ting the de­fend­ant and the third party ob­ject­ing to the hand­ing over of ob­jects an ap­pro­pri­ate dead­line for stat­ing their po­s­i­tion, the Fed­er­al Of­fice shall rule on the ex­tra­di­tion of the de­fend­ant and the hand­ing over of ob­jects and as­sets seized.96

2 If the de­fend­ant claims that he is be­ing charged with a polit­ic­al of­fence or if the in­vest­ig­a­tion re­veals ser­i­ous grounds to be­lieve that the of­fence is of a polit­ic­al nature, the Ap­peals Cham­ber of the Fed­er­al Crim­in­al Court shall de­cide the case.97 The Fed­er­al Of­fice shall send the file to this Court, to­geth­er with its pro­pos­al. The de­fend­ant shall be giv­en the op­por­tun­ity to state his po­s­i­tion.

3 The pro­ced­ure for an ap­peal un­der Art­icle 25 ap­plies by ana­logy.98

96 Amended by No I of the FA of 4 Oct. 1996, in force since 1 Feb. 1997 (AS 1997114; BBl 1995 III 1).

97 Amended by An­nex No 30 of the FA of 17 June 2005 on the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court, in force since 1 Jan. 2007 (AS 2006 2197; BBl 2001 4202).

98 Amended by An­nex No 30 of the Fed­er­al Act of 17 June 2005 on the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court, in force since 1 Jan. 2007 (AS 2006 2197; BBl 2001 4202).