Swiss Criminal Code

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of 21 December 1937 (Status as of 1 January 2022)


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Art. 246

For­gery of of­fi­cial marks

 

Any per­son who forges or fals­i­fies an of­fi­cial mark which the au­thor­it­ies af­fix to an ob­ject to con­firm the res­ult of an in­spec­tion or the grant­ing of ap­prov­al such as hall­marks, or marks stamped on goods by meat in­spect­ors, marks stamped by the Fed­er­al Of­fice for Cus­toms and Bor­der Se­cur­ity, with the in­ten­tion of passing the mark off as genu­ine,264

any per­son who passes off such forged or fals­i­fied marks as genu­ine or non-fals­i­fied,

shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.

264 Amended by No I 6 of the O of 12 June 2020 on the Amend­ment of Le­gis­la­tion as a con­sequence of the Change in the Name of the Fed­er­al Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion as part of its fur­ther De­vel­op­ment, in force since 1 Jan. 2022 (AS 2020 2743).

 
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