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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. 16

3. Right to re­fuse to testi­fy

 

1 The right to re­fuse to testi­fy is gov­erned by Art­icle 42 para­graphs 1 and 3 of the Fed­er­al Act of 4 Decem­ber 194745 on Fed­er­al Civil Pro­ced­ure (FCP).

1bis The me­di­at­or is en­titled to re­fuse to testi­fy on mat­ters that have come to his at­ten­tion in the course of his activ­it­ies in terms of Art­icle 33b.46

2 A per­son who has know­ledge of a pro­fes­sion­al or trade secret in terms of Art­icle 42 para­graph 2 FCP may the re­fuse to testi­fy un­less he is re­quired to testi­fy by an­oth­er fed­er­al act.

3 ...47

45SR 273

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

47 Re­pealed by No I 1 of the FA of 23 June 2000 on the Amend­ment of Fed­er­al Le­gis­la­tion in or­der to guar­an­tee the Pro­tec­tion of Journ­al­ist­ic Sources, with ef­fect from 1 Feb. 2001 (AS 2001 118; BBl 1999 7966).