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

The Fed­er­al Of­fice may de­cide wheth­er mu­tu­al as­sist­ance is per­mit­ted and del­eg­ate its ex­e­cu­tion to a can­ton­al au­thor­ity or it­self de­cide on the ex­e­cu­tion if:

a.

the ex­e­cu­tion of the re­quest ne­ces­sit­ates in­vest­ig­a­tions in more than one can­ton;

b.

the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­ity is un­able to make a de­cision with­in the ap­pro­pri­ate time; or

c.

the cases are com­plex or par­tic­u­larly im­port­ant.