Swiss Criminal Code

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of 21 December 1937 (Status as of 1 July 2021)


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Art. 179octies210

Of­fi­cial sur­veil­lance, ex­emp­ted acts

 

1 Any per­son who, in the ex­er­cise of ex­press stat­utory powers, or­ders or car­ries out the sur­veil­lance of the post or tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions of an­oth­er or makes use of tech­nic­al sur­veil­lance devices (Art. 179bis ff.) does not com­mit an of­fence provided that the ap­prov­al of the ap­pro­pri­ate court is ob­tained without delay.

2 The re­quire­ments for the sur­veil­lance of post or tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions and the pro­ced­ure there­for is gov­erned by the Fed­er­al Act of 6 Oc­to­ber 2000211 on the Sur­veil­lance of Post and Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions.

210In­ser­ted by No VII of the FA of 23 March 1979 on the Pro­tec­tion of Per­son­al Pri­vacy (AS 1979 1170; BBl 1976 I 529II 1569). Amended by An­nex No 1 of the FA of 6 Oct. 2000 on the Sur­veil­lance of Post and Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions, in force since 1 Jan. 2002 (AS 20013096; BBl 1998 4241).

211 [AS 2001 3096, 2003 2133An­nex No 18 3043 No I 2, 2004 21493693, 2006 2197An­nex No 84 5437 Art. 2 No 3, 2007 921An­nex No 3 5437 An­nex No II 7, 2010 1881An­nex 1 No II 26 3267 An­nex No II 14, 2012 3745An­nex No 7, 2017 4095An­nex No II 12.AS 2018 117]. See now: the FA of 18 March 2016 (SR 780.1).

 
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