Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ If the peri­od on re­mand ordered by the com­puls­ory meas­ures court ex­pires, the pub­lic pro­sec­utor may file an ap­plic­a­tion to ex­tend the peri­od of re­mand. If the com­puls­ory meas­ures court has not lim­ited the peri­od of re­mand, the ap­plic­a­tion must be filed be­fore the ac­cused has spent 3 months on re­mand.

² The pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall file a writ­ten ap­plic­a­tion stat­ing the grounds with the com­puls­ory meas­ures court 4 days at the latest be­fore the ex­piry of the peri­od of re­mand, to­geth­er with the most rel­ev­ant files.

³ The com­puls­ory meas­ures court shall give the ac­cused and his or her de­fence law­yer the op­por­tun­ity to in­spect the files in its pos­ses­sion and to re­spond to the ap­plic­a­tion in writ­ing with­in 3 days.

⁴ It may or­der the pro­vi­sion­al con­tinu­ation of re­mand pending its de­cision.

⁵ The com­puls­ory meas­ures court shall de­cide at the latest with­in 5 days of re­ceipt of the re­sponse or the ex­piry of the time lim­it men­tioned in para­graph 3 above. It may in­struct the pub­lic pro­sec­utor to carry out spe­cif­ic in­vest­ig­at­ive activ­it­ies, or or­der an al­tern­at­ive meas­ure.

⁶ The pro­ceed­ings are nor­mally con­duc­ted in writ­ing, but the com­puls­ory meas­ures court may or­der a hear­ing, which shall be held in private.

⁷ An ex­ten­sion of the peri­od on re­mand may be gran­ted for a max­im­um of 3 months, or in ex­cep­tion­al cases for a max­im­um of 6 months.