Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ If a party re­quests that a per­son act­ing for a crim­in­al justice au­thor­ity be re­cuse him- or her­self, the party must sub­mit the rel­ev­ant ap­plic­a­tion to the dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings as soon as he or she be­comes aware of the grounds for re­cus­al; the cir­cum­stances jus­ti­fy­ing re­cus­al must be cred­ibly sub­stan­ti­ated.

² The per­son con­cerned shall re­spond to the ap­plic­a­tion.