Swiss Civil Code

¹ The per­sons par­ti­cip­at­ing in the pro­ceed­ings and third parties are ob­liged to co­oper­ate in the en­quir­ies in­to the cir­cum­stances. The adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity shall make the ar­range­ments re­quired to safe­guard le­git­im­ate in­terests. If ne­ces­sary, it shall or­der the en­force­ment of the duty to co­oper­ate.

² Doc­tors, dent­ists, phar­macists, mid­wives and birth as­sist­ants, chiro­pract­ors and psy­cho­lo­gists and their aux­il­i­ary per­son­nel are only ob­liged to co­oper­ate if the per­son en­titled to con­fid­en­ti­al­ity has au­thor­ised them to do so or if a su­per­i­or au­thor­ity or the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity has re­lieved them of the ob­lig­a­tion of pro­fes­sion­al con­fid­en­ti­al­ity at their own re­quest or at the re­quest of the adult pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity.⁴⁸⁶

³ Mem­bers of the clergy, law­yers, de­fence agents, me­di­at­ors and former wel­fare depu­ties ap­poin­ted in the case are not sub­ject to the ob­lig­a­tion to co­oper­ate.

⁴ Ad­min­is­trat­ive au­thor­it­ies and courts shall hand over the re­quired files, draw up re­ports and provide in­form­a­tion un­less le­git­im­ate in­terests re­quire oth­er­wise.