Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹In crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings against a cor­por­ate un­der­tak­ing, the un­der­tak­ing shall be rep­res­en­ted by a single per­son who has un­lim­ited au­thor­ity to rep­res­ent the un­der­tak­ing in private law mat­ters.

²If the un­der­tak­ing fails to ap­point such a rep­res­ent­at­ive with­in a reas­on­able time, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall de­cide which of the per­sons au­thor­ised to rep­res­ent the un­der­tak­ing in private law mat­ters will rep­res­ent the un­der­tak­ing in the crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings.

³If a crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tion is opened against the per­son rep­res­ent­ing the un­der­tak­ing in the crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings in re­spect of the same or re­lated cir­cum­stances, the un­der­tak­ing must ap­point an­oth­er rep­res­ent­at­ive. If ne­ces­sary, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall ap­point an­oth­er per­son to rep­res­ent the un­der­tak­ing in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2, or if no one is avail­able, a suit­able third party.

⁴If pro­ceed­ings are brought against a nat­ur­al per­son and an un­der­tak­ing in re­spect of the same or re­lated cir­cum­stances, the two pro­ceed­ings may be com­bined.