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

¹ Re­quests for as­sist­ance may be sub­mit­ted by au­thor­it­ies that are com­pet­ent to in­vest­ig­ate of­fences or make de­cisions in oth­er pro­ceed­ings to which this Act is ap­plic­able.

² Swiss au­thor­it­ies may also ac­cept re­quests for the ex­e­cu­tion of pro­ced­ur­al acts from the parties au­thor­ised to make them if those acts are in­cum­bent upon the parties un­der the laws of the re­quest­ing State.

³ The FOJ shall make re­quests for mu­tu­al as­sist­ance that is needed out­side crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings.¹²⁵