Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Where a party has failed to com­ply with a time lim­it and has thus in­curred a sig­ni­fic­ant and ir­re­medi­able loss of rights, he or she may re­quest that a new time lim­it be fixed; in do­ing so he or she must cred­ibly show that he or she was not at fault for the fail­ure to com­ply with the time lim­it.

² The ap­plic­a­tion must be made in writ­ing with a state­ment of reas­ons and sub­mit­ted with­in 30 days of the reas­on for de­fault ceas­ing to ap­ply to the au­thor­ity be­fore which the rel­ev­ant pro­ced­ur­al act should have been car­ried out. The rel­ev­ant pro­ced­ur­al act must be car­ried out with­in the same time lim­it.

³ The ap­plic­a­tion only has sus­pens­ive ef­fect if the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity grants the same.

⁴ The crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity shall de­cide on the ap­plic­a­tion in writ­ten pro­ceed­ings.

⁵ Para­graphs 1–4 ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis in the event of fail­ure to at­tend a hear­ing. If a new hear­ing is gran­ted, the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings shall fix a new date. The pro­vi­sions on pro­ceed­ings in ab­sen­tia are re­served.