Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ A sum­mons shall be is­sued in writ­ing by the pub­lic pro­sec­utor, the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for pro­sec­ut­ing con­tra­ven­tions and the courts.

² It con­tains:

a.

the name of the crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity is­su­ing the sum­mons and the per­sons who will carry out the pro­ced­ur­al act;

b.

the name of the per­son summoned and the ca­pa­city in which it is in­ten­ded that per­son should par­ti­cip­ate in the pro­ced­ur­al act;

c.

the reas­on for the sum­mons if the aim of the in­vest­ig­a­tion per­mits such in­form­a­tion to be dis­closed;

d.

the place, date and time of ap­pear­ance;

e.

no­tice of the re­quire­ment to ap­pear per­son­ally;

f.

a cau­tion as to the leg­al con­sequences of the fail­ure to ap­pear without ex­cuse;

g.

the date on which the sum­mons was is­sued;

h.

the sig­na­ture of the per­son is­su­ing the sum­mons.