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Federal Act
on Administrative Procedure
(Administrative Procedure Act, APA)1

of 20 December 1968 (Status as of 1 July 2022)

1 Abbreviation added by Annex No II 3 of the Law Enforcement Authorities Act of 19 March 2010, in force since 1 Jan. 2011 (AS 2010 3267; BBl 20088125).

Art. 14

III. Ex­am­in­a­tion of wit­nesses

1. Jur­is­dic­tion

 

1 If it is not pos­sible to es­tab­lish the facts of the case suf­fi­ciently in any oth­er way, the fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may or­der the ex­am­in­a­tion of wit­nesses:

a.
the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and its de­part­ments;
b.
the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Justice36 of the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Justice and Po­lice;
c.37
the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court;
d.38
the com­pet­i­tion au­thor­it­ies in terms of the Car­tels Act of 6 Oc­to­ber 199539;
e.40
the Swiss Fin­an­cial Mar­ket Su­per­vis­ory Au­thor­ity;
f.41
the Fed­er­al Audit Over­sight Au­thor­ity;
g.42
the Fed­er­al Tax Ad­min­is­tra­tion,
h.43
the Fed­er­al Ar­bit­ra­tion Com­mis­sion for the Ex­ploit­a­tion of Copy­rights and Re­lated Rights.

2 The au­thor­it­ies men­tioned in para­graph 1 let­ters a, b, d–f and h shall in­struct a suit­ably qual­i­fied pub­lic of­fi­cial to ex­am­ine the wit­nesses.44

3 The au­thor­it­ies men­tioned in para­graph 1 let­ter a may au­thor­ise per­sons out­side an au­thor­ity that has been in­struc­ted to con­duct an of­fi­cial in­vest­ig­a­tion to ex­am­ine the wit­nesses.

36 Term ac­cord­ing to un­pub­lished Fed­er­al Coun­cil De­cree of 19 Dec. 1997.

37 Amended by An­nex No 10 of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court Act of 17 June 2005, in force since 1 Jan. 2007 (AS200621971069; BBl20014202).

38In­ser­ted by An­nex No 2 of the Car­tels Act of 6 Oct. 1995, in force since 1 Ju­ly 1996 (AS 1996 546; BBl 1995 I 468).

39SR 251

40 In­ser­ted by An­nex No 2 of the Fin­an­cial Mar­ket Su­per­vi­sion Act of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Jan. 2009 (AS 2008 5207; BBl 2006 2829).

41 In­ser­ted by An­nex No 1 of the FA of 20 June 2014 (Con­sol­id­a­tion of Over­sight through Audit Com­pan­ies), in force since 1 Jan. 2015 (AS 2014 4073; BBl 2013 6857).

42 In­ser­ted by An­nex No 1 of the FA of 30 Sept. 2016, in force since 1 Jan. 2018 (AS 2017 3575; BBl 2015 2615).

43 In­ser­ted by An­nex No 1 of the FA of 27 Sept. 2019, in force since 1 April 2020 (AS 2020 1003; BBl 2018 591).

44 Amended by An­nex No 1 of the FA of 27 Sept. 2019, in force since 1 April 2020 (AS 2020 1003; BBl 2018 591).