Federal Act
on Support for the Victims of Crime
(Victim Support Act, VSA)

The pre­vi­ous law ap­plies to:

a.

claims for dam­ages or sat­is­fac­tion for of­fences com­mit­ted be­fore this Act comes in­to force; for claims arising from of­fences com­mit­ted less than two years be­fore this Act comes in­to force, the time lim­its set out in Art­icle 25 ap­ply;

b.

ap­plic­a­tions for con­tri­bu­tions to costs that were sub­mit­ted be­fore this Act comes in­to force.