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

¹ At the ex­press re­quest of an­oth­er State, pro­vi­sion­al meas­ures may be taken by the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity to pre­serve the ex­ist­ing situ­ation, to safe­guard threatened leg­al in­terests or to pro­tect jeop­ard­ised evid­ence un­less the pro­ceed­ings un­der this Act clearly ap­pear to be in­ad­miss­ible or in­ap­pro­pri­ate.

² If any delay would jeop­ard­ise the pro­ceed­ings and if there is suf­fi­cient in­form­a­tion to de­term­ine wheth­er all the con­di­tions are met, the FOJ may like­wise or­der pro­vi­sion­al meas­ures as soon as a re­quest is an­nounced. Such meas­ures shall be re­voked if the for­eign State does not make the re­quest with­in the dead­line set.

³ Ap­peals filed against rul­ings based on this Art­icle do not have sus­pens­ive ef­fect.