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

¹ After the ap­peal has been filed, the ap­pel­late au­thor­ity, its pres­id­ent or the in­struct­ing judge shall on re­quest re­lieve a party who does not have the re­quired fin­an­cial means of the re­quire­ment to pay pro­ced­ur­al costs, un­less his ap­plic­a­tion ap­pears to have no pro­spect of suc­cess.¹¹²

² If it is ne­ces­sary in or­der to safe­guard his rights, the ap­pel­late au­thor­ity, its pres­id­ent or the in­struct­ing judge shall ap­point a law­yer to rep­res­ent the party.¹¹³

³ The li­ab­il­ity for the law­yer's costs and fees is de­term­ined in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 64 para­graphs 2–4.

⁴ If the party later ac­quires suf­fi­cient fin­an­cial means, he shall be re­quired to re­im­burse the pub­lic cor­por­a­tion or autonom­ous in­sti­tu­tion that has paid the law­yer's fees and costs.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the as­sess­ment of fees and costs.¹¹⁴ Art­icle 16 para­graph 1 let­ter a of the Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court Act of 17 June 2005¹¹⁵ and Art­icle 73 of the Law En­force­ment Au­thor­it­ies Act of 19 March 2010¹¹⁶ are re­served.¹¹⁷