Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ Any per­son who is re­quired to pre­serve pro­fes­sion­al con­fid­en­ti­al­ity in ac­cord­ance with any of the fol­low­ing pro­vi­sions must testi­fy only if the in­terest in es­tab­lish­ing the truth out­weighs the in­terest in pre­serving con­fid­en­ti­al­ity:

a.

Art­icle 321^bis SCC⁹⁴;

b.

Art­icle 139 para­graph 3 of the Civil Code⁹⁵;

c.

Art­icle 2 of the Fed­er­al Act of 9 Oc­to­ber 1981⁹⁶ on Preg­nancy Ad­vis­ory Centres;

d.⁹⁷

Art­icle 11 of the Vic­tim Sup­port Act of 23 March 2007⁹⁸;

e.⁹⁹

Art­icle 3c para­graph 4 NarcA¹⁰⁰;

f.¹⁰¹

…

² Per­sons en­trus­ted with oth­er con­fid­en­tial in­form­a­tion pro­tec­ted by law are re­quired to testi­fy. The dir­ect­or of pro­ceed­ings may re­lieve them of the duty to testi­fy if they are able to es­tab­lish that the in­terest in pre­serving con­fid­en­ti­al­ity out­weighs the in­terest in es­tab­lish­ing the truth.