Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Any per­son summoned by a crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity must com­ply with the sum­mons.

² Any per­son who is pre­ven­ted from com­ply­ing with a sum­mons must in­form the au­thor­ity is­su­ing the sum­mons im­me­di­ately; he or she must give reas­ons for his or her in­ab­il­ity to ap­pear and if pos­sible provide doc­u­ment­ary evid­ence there­of.

³ A sum­mons may be re­voked if there is good cause. The re­voc­a­tion of the sum­mons takes ef­fect when the per­son summoned has been in­formed there­of.

⁴ Any per­son who, without an ac­cept­able reas­on, fails to com­ply with a sum­mons from a pub­lic pro­sec­utor, au­thor­ity re­spons­ible for pro­sec­ut­ing con­tra­ven­tions or a court or who ap­pears late shall be li­able to a fixed pen­alty fine and may also be brought be­fore the au­thor­ity con­cerned by the po­lice.

⁵ The fore­go­ing para­graph does not ap­ply to the pro­vi­sions on pro­ceed­ings in ab­sen­tia.