Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may au­thor­ise the ac­cused to be­gin a cus­todi­al sen­tence or cus­todi­al meas­ure in ad­vance of the an­ti­cip­ated date, provided the status of the pro­ceed­ings per­mit this.

² If the charges have already been filed, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall con­sult the pub­lic pro­sec­utor.

³ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons may provide that the ex­e­cu­tion of a meas­ure in ad­vance of the an­ti­cip­ated date re­quires the con­sent of the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for its ex­e­cu­tion.

⁴ On ad­mis­sion to a pen­al in­sti­tu­tion, the ac­cused be­gins his or her sen­tence or meas­ure; from this point the ac­cused is gov­erned by the rel­ev­ant re­gime un­less this con­flicts with the pur­pose of the ac­cused's re­mand or pre­vent­ive de­ten­tion.