Swiss Civil Code

¹In re­la­tion to the re­gis­tra­tion of civil status, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil is re­spons­ible for safe­guard­ing the per­son­al­ity and con­sti­tu­tion­al rights of per­sons in re­spect of whom data is pro­cessed.

²It reg­u­lates the dis­clos­ure of data to private per­sons who may show a dir­ect in­terest war­rant­ing pro­tec­tion.

³It stip­u­lates those au­thor­it­ies, in ad­di­tion to the re­gister au­thor­it­ies, to whom the data ne­ces­sary for the per­form­ance of their leg­al du­ties may be dis­closed peri­od­ic­ally or on re­quest. The dis­clos­ure pro­vi­sions un­der can­ton­al law are re­served.

^3bisThe re­gister au­thor­it­ies are re­quired to re­port to the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity any crim­in­al of­fences that come to their at­ten­tion while car­ry­ing out their of­fi­cial du­ties.²

⁴The fol­low­ing bod­ies have on­line ac­cess to data re­quired for prov­ing the iden­tity of a per­son:

1.

the is­su­ing au­thor­it­ies un­der the Fed­er­al Act of 22 June 2001³ on Iden­ti­fic­a­tion Doc­u­ments for Swiss Na­tion­als;

2.⁴

the fed­er­al agency re­spons­ible for op­er­at­ing the com­pu­ter­ised po­lice search sys­tem un­der Art­icle 15 of the Fed­er­al Act of 13 June 2008⁵ on the Fed­er­al Po­lice In­form­a­tion Sys­tems and the fil­ter­ing agen­cies of the can­ton­al and com­mun­al po­lice forces linked in­to the search sys­tem;

3.

the fed­er­al agency re­spons­ible for keep­ing the com­pu­ter­ised re­gister of con­vic­tions un­der Art. 359 of the Crim­in­al Code⁶;

4.

the fed­er­al agency re­spons­ible for in­vest­ig­a­tions re­gard­ing miss­ing per­sons⁷;

5.⁸

the Fed­er­al In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice for the early de­tec­tion and pre­ven­tion of threats to in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6 para­graph 1 let­ter a of the In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice Act of 25 Septem­ber 2015⁹;

6.¹⁰

the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for keep­ing the can­ton­al and com­mun­al re­gisters of res­id­ents in ac­cord­ance with the Re­gister Har­mon­isa­tion Act of 23 June 2006¹¹;

7. ¹²

the fed­er­al agen­cies re­spons­ible for keep­ing the cent­ral re­gisters of in­sured per­sons in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 71 para­graph 4 let­ter a of the Fed­er­al Act of 20 Decem­ber 1946¹³ on Old-Age and Sur­viv­ors In­sur­ance;

8. ¹⁴

the fed­er­al agen­cies at the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of For­eign Af­fairs re­spons­ible for keep­ing the re­gister of Swiss liv­ing abroad in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 4 para­graph 1 of the Fed­er­al Act of 24 March 2000¹⁵ on the Pro­cessing of Per­son­al Data.