Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The pub­lic pro­sec­utor or courts may have an ac­cused ad­mit­ted to hos­pit­al if this is re­quired in or­der to pre­pare a med­ic­al re­port.

² The pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall ap­ply to the com­puls­ory meas­ures court for the ac­cused to be ad­mit­ted to hos­pit­al un­less the ac­cused is already on re­mand. The com­puls­ory meas­ures court shall is­sue a fi­nal judg­ment on the mat­ter in writ­ten pro­ceed­ings.

³ If an in-pa­tient as­sess­ment proves ne­ces­sary dur­ing the court pro­ceed­ings, the court con­cerned shall is­sue a fi­nal de­cision on the mat­ter in writ­ten pro­ceed­ings.

⁴ The time spent in hos­pit­al shall be taken in­to ac­count in the sen­tence.

⁵ In ad­di­tion, the in-pa­tient as­sess­ment is gov­erned by mu­tatis mutandis by the reg­u­la­tions on re­mand and pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion.