Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies are ob­liged to com­mence and con­duct pro­ceed­ings that fall with­in their jur­is­dic­tion where they are aware of or have grounds for sus­pect­ing that an of­fence has been com­mit­ted.

² The can­tons may provide:

a.

for the ex­clu­sion or lim­it­a­tion of crim­in­al li­ab­il­ity for state­ments made in the can­ton­al par­lia­ment by the mem­bers of their le­gis­lat­ive and ju­di­cial au­thor­it­ies and of their gov­ern­ments;

b.

that the pro­sec­u­tion of mem­bers of their au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tences and meas­ures and ju­di­cial au­thor­it­ies for felon­ies or mis­de­mean­ours com­mit­ted while in of­fice be made sub­ject to the au­thor­isa­tion of a non-ju­di­cial au­thor­ity.