Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Sen­tences that are time-barred may not be en­forced.

² The ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity shall veri­fy ex of­fi­cio wheth­er the sen­tence is time barred.

³ The per­son con­victed may con­test the planned ex­e­cu­tion of a time-barred sen­tence or meas­ure be­fore the ob­jec­tions court of the can­ton of ex­e­cu­tion. This au­thor­ity shall also de­cide on wheth­er the ap­peal has sus­pens­ive ef­fect.

⁴ If the per­son con­victed is made to serve a time-barred cus­todi­al sanc­tion, he or she shall be en­titled to com­pens­a­tion and sat­is­fac­tion in ana­log­ous ap­plic­a­tion of Art­icle 431.