Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies shall is­sue com­mu­nic­a­tions in writ­ing, un­less this Code provides oth­er­wise.

² Ser­vice shall be ef­fected by re­gistered mail or in any oth­er way provided con­firm­a­tion of re­ceipt is ob­tained, and in par­tic­u­lar by per­son­al ser­vice by the po­lice

³ It is ef­fected if the de­liv­ery is ac­cep­ted by ad­dress­ee or by an em­ploy­ee there­of or a per­son liv­ing in the same house­hold who is at least 16 years old, un­less the law en­force­ment au­thor­ity has in­struc­ted that de­liv­ery be made to the ad­dress­ee in per­son.

⁴ It is also deemed to be ef­fected:

a.

in the case of a de­liv­ery by re­gistered mail that is not col­lec­ted: on the sev­enth day fol­low­ing the un­suc­cess­ful at­tempt at ser­vice, provided the per­son is ex­pect­ing the de­liv­ery;

b.

in the case of per­son­al ser­vice, if the ad­dress­ee re­fuses to ac­cept ser­vice and this is re­cor­ded by the mes­sen­ger: on the day of re­fus­al.