Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The bail pay­ment shall be re­turned if:

a.

the grounds for de­ten­tion no longer ap­ply;

b.

the crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings are con­cluded by a fi­nal judg­ment of aban­don­ment or ac­quit­tal;

c.

the ac­cused has be­gun a cus­todi­al sanc­tion.

² Be­fore the bail pay­ment made by the ac­cused is re­turned, any mon­et­ary pen­al­ties, fines, costs and dam­ages that have been im­posed on the ac­cused may be de­duc­ted from it.

³ The au­thor­ity be­fore which the case is pending or was last pending shall de­cide on the re­turn of the bail pay­ment.