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Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

of 5 October 2007 (Status as of 1 July 2022)

Art. 173 Right to refuse to testify due to other duties of confidentiality

1 Any per­son who is re­quired to pre­serve pro­fes­sion­al con­fid­en­ti­al­ity in ac­cord­ance with any of the fol­low­ing pro­vi­sions must testi­fy only if the in­terest in es­tab­lish­ing the truth out­weighs the in­terest in pre­serving con­fid­en­ti­al­ity:

a.
Art­icle 321bis SCC57;
b.
Art­icle 139 para­graph 3 of the Civil Code58;
c.
Art­icle 2 of the Fed­er­al Act of 9 Oc­to­ber 198159 on Preg­nancy Ad­vis­ory Centres;
d.60
Art­icle 11 of the Vic­tim Sup­port Act of 23 March 200761;
e.62
Art­icle 15 para­graph 2 of the Nar­cot­ics Act of 3 Oc­to­ber 195163;
f.64
Art­icle 16 let­ter f of the Health­care Oc­cu­pa­tions Act of 30 Septem­ber 201665.

2 Per­sons en­trus­ted with oth­er con­fid­en­tial in­form­a­tion pro­tec­ted by law are re­quired to testi­fy. The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may re­lieve them of the duty to testi­fy if they are able to es­tab­lish that the in­terest in pre­serving con­fid­en­ti­al­ity out­weighs the in­terest in es­tab­lish­ing the truth.

57 SR 311.0

58 SR 210. This Art. has now been re­pealed.

59 SR 857.5

60 Amended by An­nex No II 7 of the Crim­in­al Justice Au­thor­it­ies Act of 19 March 2010, in force since 1 Jan. 2011 (AS 2010 3267; BBl 2008 8125).

61 SR 312.5

62 Cor­rec­tion by the Fed­er­al As­sembly Draft­ing Com­mit­tee dated 19 Sept. 2014, pub­lished on 4 Oct. 2014 (AS 2011 4487).

63 SR 812.121

64 In­ser­ted by An­nex No 2 of the Health­care Oc­cu­pa­tions Act of 30 Sept. 2016, in force since 1 Feb. 2020 (AS 2020 57; BBl 2015 8715).

65 SR 811.21