Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

of 5 October 2007 (Status as of 23 January 2023)


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Art. 261 Retention and use of identifying documents 77

1 Doc­u­ments that identi­fy the ac­cused may be re­tained out­side the case file and, in the event of a reas­on­able sus­pi­cion that a new of­fence has been com­mit­ted, may also be used:

a.
un­til the ex­piry the time lim­its for the de­le­tion of DNA pro­files in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 16–18 of the DNA Pro­files Act of 20 June 200378; or
b.
in the event of a con­vic­tion for a con­tra­ven­tion: for up to five years after pay­ment of a fine or after com­ple­tion of the cor­res­pond­ing al­tern­at­ive cus­todi­al sen­tence.

2 Doc­u­ments identi­fy­ing per­sons oth­er than the ac­cused must be des­troyed as soon as the pro­ceed­ings against the ac­cused have been con­cluded or aban­doned or it has been de­cided not to bring pro­ceed­ings.

3 If it be­comes clear be­fore the ex­piry of the time lim­its un­der para­graph 1 that there is no longer any in­terest in re­tain­ing or us­ing the identi­fy­ing doc­u­ments, they shall be des­troyed.

77 Amended by An­nex 1 No 5 of the Crim­in­al Re­cords Re­gister Act of 17 June 2016, in force since 23 Jan. 2023 (AS 2022 600; BBl 2014 5713).

78 SR 363

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