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

¹ If the con­di­tions of Art­icle 94 para­graph 1 are not met, sen­tences in­volving re­stric­tion of liberty that have been im­posed on a non-Swiss na­tion­al in an­oth­er State may be en­forced in Switzer­land un­der Swiss law if the oth­er State can­not ex­ecute them it­self.

² In this case, the fi­nal and en­force­able for­eign de­cision shall con­sti­tute the leg­al basis for the re­stric­tion of the con­victed per­son’s liberty.

³ If per­sons are sur­rendered to Switzer­land in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1, then un­less ar­range­ments to the con­trary have been made with the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies of the sur­ren­der­ing State, they may neither be pro­sec­uted nor pun­ished nor ex­tra­dited to a third State by the Swiss au­thor­it­ies for of­fences that they com­mit­ted be­fore their sur­render and that were not the sub­ject of their con­vic­tion. These ef­fects shall ex­pire ten days after re­lease on pa­role or fi­nal re­lease from the in­sti­tu­tion.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the de­tails.