Federal Act
on Unfair Competition
(Unfair Competition Act, UCA)

¹ If do­main names or tele­phone num­bers have been used in or­der to com­mit a crim­in­al of­fence un­der Art­icle 23 in con­junc­tion with Art­icle 3 or un­der Art­icle 24 and the meas­ure con­cerned is re­quired in or­der to pre­vent fur­ther of­fences, the pub­lic pro­sec­utor or the court may or­der the fol­low­ing meas­ures without re­gard to the crim­in­al li­ab­il­ity of any spe­cif­ic per­son:

a.

the re­voc­a­tion of a second level do­main name sub­or­din­ate to an in­ter­net do­main whose ad­min­is­tra­tion is Switzer­land's re­spons­ib­il­ity;

b.

the re­voc­a­tion or the block­ing of a tele­phone num­ber for fixed-net­work ser­vices or for mo­bile tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vices.

² The au­thor­ity dir­ect­ing the pro­ceed­ings may or­der the tem­por­ary block­ing of the do­main name or the tele­phone num­ber un­til the crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings have been con­cluded.