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

¹ Re­quests shall be made in writ­ing.

² The fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion must be provided in a re­quest:

a.

the of­fice is­su­ing the re­quest and, if ap­plic­able, the au­thor­ity hav­ing crim­in­al jur­is­dic­tion;

b.

the sub­ject mat­ter of and the reas­on for the re­quest;

c.

the leg­al term for the of­fence;

d.

de­tails that are as ex­act and com­plete as pos­sible on the per­son who is the sub­ject of the crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings.

³ To per­mit the leg­al as­sess­ment of the of­fence, the fol­low­ing shall be ad­ded:

a.

a sum­mary of the rel­ev­ant al­leg­a­tions, ex­cept in the case of re­quests for ser­vice;

b.⁷⁹

the word­ing of the reg­u­la­tions ap­plic­able at the place where the of­fence was com­mit­ted, ex­cept for re­quests for as­sist­ance in ac­cord­ance with Part Three of this Act.

⁴ For­eign of­fi­cial re­cords need not be leg­al­ised.

⁵ For­eign re­quests and their en­clos­ures shall be sub­mit­ted in Ger­man, French or Itali­an or be ac­com­pan­ied by a trans­la­tion in­to one of these lan­guages. Trans­la­tions must be of­fi­cially cer­ti­fied.

⁶ If a re­quest does not meet the form­al re­quire­ments, its cor­rec­tion or com­ple­tion may be de­man­ded; the or­der­ing of pro­vi­sion­al meas­ures is not af­fected thereby.