Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The fol­low­ing of­fences in the SCC⁶ are sub­ject to fed­er­al jur­is­dic­tion:

a.⁷

the of­fences in Titles One and Four and Art­icles 140, 156, 189 and 190 in­so­far as they are com­mit­ted against per­sons pro­tec­ted by in­ter­na­tion­al law, mem­bers of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil, the Fed­er­al Chan­cel­lor or judges of the Fed­er­al Courts, mem­bers the Fed­er­al As­sembly, the Fed­er­al At­tor­ney Gen­er­al or the Deputy At­tor­neys Gen­er­al;

b.

the of­fences in Art­icles 137–141, 144, 160 and 172^terin­so­far as they re­late to premises, archives or doc­u­ments of dip­lo­mat­ic mis­sions and con­su­lates;

c.

the tak­ing of host­ages in terms of Art­icle 185 in or­der to ex­ert duress on fed­er­al or for­eign au­thor­it­ies;

d.

felon­ies and mis­de­mean­ours un­der Art­icle 224–226^ter;

e.⁸

the felon­ies and mis­de­mean­ours in Title Ten re­lat­ing to coin­age, pa­per money and bank­notes, of­fi­cial stamps and oth­er fed­er­al marks, weights and meas­ures;

f.

the felon­ies and mis­de­mean­ours in Title El­ev­en in­so­far as they re­late to of­fi­cial fed­er­al doc­u­ments, with the ex­cep­tion of driv­ing li­cences and re­ceipts for postal money trans­fers; not in­cluded are vign­ettes for us­ing first and second class na­tion­al high­ways;

g.⁹

the of­fences in Title Twelve^bis and Twelve^ter as well as Art­icle 264k;

h.

the of­fences in Art­icle 260^bis and in Titles Thir­teen to Fif­teen and in Title Sev­en­teen, provided they are dir­ec­ted against the Con­fed­er­a­tion, the au­thor­it­ies of the Con­fed­er­a­tion, the will of the People in fed­er­al elec­tions, pop­u­lar votes, re­quests for a ref­er­en­dum or ini­ti­at­ives, against fed­er­al powers or against the ad­min­is­tra­tion of fed­er­al justice;

i.

the felon­ies and mis­de­mean­ours in Title Six­teen;

j.

the of­fences in Titles Eight­een and Nine­teen in­so­far as they are com­mit­ted by a mem­ber of an au­thor­ity or an em­ploy­ee of the Con­fed­er­a­tion or against the Con­fed­er­a­tion;

k.¹⁰

the con­tra­ven­tions in Art­icles 329 and 331;

l.

polit­ic­al felon­ies and mis­de­mean­ours that are the cause or con­sequence of un­rest that gives rise to armed fed­er­al in­ter­ven­tion.

² The reg­u­la­tions con­tained in spe­cial fed­er­al acts on the jur­is­dic­tion of the Fed­er­al Crim­in­al Court are re­served.