OWiG (EN)

Act on Regulatory Offences
OWiG-EN · official text on Gesetze im Internet — official English translation

Sections

Section 1 — Definition
Section 2 — Substantive application
Section 3 — No sanctioning without a law
Section 4 — Temporal application
Section 5 — Territorial application
Section 6 — Time of the act
Section 7 — Place of the act
Section 8 — Commission of an act by omission
Section 9 — Acting for another
Section 10 — Intent and negligence
Section 11 — Error
Section 12 — Responsibility
Section 13 — Attempt
Section 14 — Participation
Section 15 — Necessary defence
Section 16 — Necessity as justification
Section 17 — Amount of regulatory fine
Section 18 — Easier means of payment
Section 19 — Act constituting more than one violation
Section 20 — Commission of more than one violation
Section 21 — Concurrence of criminal offence and regulatory offence
Section 22 — Confiscation of objects
Section 23 — Extended prerequisites for confiscation
Section 24 — Principle of proportionality
Section 25 — Confiscation of replacement value
Section 26 — Effect of confiscation
Section 27 — Order in its own right
Section 28 — Compensation
Section 29 — Special provision for entities and representatives
Section 29a — Confiscation of the value of the proceeds of an offence
Section 30 — Regulatory fine imposed on legal persons and on associations of persons
Section 31 — Prosecution barred by the statute of limitation
Section 32 — Period of limitation tolled by statute
Section 33 — Period of limitation interrupted
Section 34 — Execution subject to the statute of limitations
Section 35 — Prosecution and sanctioning by the administrative authority
Section 36 — Substantive jurisdiction of the administrative authority
Section 37 — Local jurisdiction of the administrative authority
Section 38 — Connected regulatory offences
Section 39 — Jurisdiction of more than one authority
Section 40 — Prosecution by the public prosecution office
Section 41 — Transfer of the case to the public prosecution office
Section 42 — The public prosecution office taking over the case
Section 43 — Transfer of the case to the administrative authority
Section 44 — Binding effect for the administrative authority
Section 45 — Jurisdiction of the court
Section 46 — Application of the provisions regarding criminal proceedings
Section 47 — Prosecution of regulatory offences
Section 48
Section 49 — Inspection of the files by the person concerned and by the administrative authority
Section 49a — Ex officio transmission encompassing several sets of proceedings
Section 49b — Transmission encompassing several sets of proceedings in response to requests; other use of data for purposes encompassing several sets of proceedings
Section 49c — Arrangements relating to files
Section 49d — Protection of personal data in an electronic file
Section 50 — Information as to measures taken by the administrative authority
Section 51 — Procedure for service effected by the administrative authority
Section 52 — Restoration of the status quo ante
Section 53 — Responsibilities of the police
Section 54
Section 55 — Hearing of the person concerned
Section 56 — Cautioning by the administrative authority
Section 57 — Cautioning by officials on external duty and by police officers
Section 58 — Authorisation of cautioning
Section 59 — Remuneration of experts, interpreters and translators, compensation of witnesses and third parties
Section 60 — Defence
Section 61 — Conclusion of investigations
Section 62 — Legal remedy against measures of the administrative authority
Section 63 — Participation of the administrative authority
Section 64 — Public charges extended to the regulatory offence
Section 65 — General
Section 66 — Contents of the regulatory fining notice
Section 67 — Form and time limit
Section 68 — Court with jurisdiction
Section 69 — Intermediate proceedings
Section 70 — Court decision on the admissibility of an objection
Section 71 — Main hearing
Section 72 — Decision in a ruling
Section 73 — Presence of the person concerned at the main hearing
Section 74 — Proceedings in absentia
Section 75 — Attendance of the public prosecution office at the main hearing
Section 76 — Participation of the administrative authority
Section 77 — Scope of the taking of evidence
Section 77a — Simplified procedure for taking evidence
Section 77b — Dispensing with stating reasoning for the judgment
Section 78 — Other measures simplifying the proceedings
Section 79 — Complaint on a point of law
Section 80 — Leave to lodge a complaint on a point of law
Section 80a — Composition of the regulatory fining divisions of the higher regional courts
Section 81 — Transition from regulatory fining proceedings to criminal proceedings
Section 82 — Imposition of a regulatory fine in criminal proceedings
Section 83 — Proceedings relating to regulatory offences and criminal offences
Section 84 — Effect of the legal force
Section 85 — Re-opening of the proceedings
Section 86 — Rescission of the regulatory fining notice in criminal proceedings
Section 87 — Order for confiscation
Section 88 — Assessment of the regulatory fine against legal persons and associations of persons
Section 89 — Enforceability of decisions concerning regulatory fines
Section 90 — Enforcement of regulatory fining notices
Section 91 — Enforcement of the decision concerning regulatory fines issued by the court
Section 92 — Enforcement authority
Section 93 — Easier means of payment
Section 94 — Offsetting of instalments
Section 95 — Collection of the regulatory fine
Section 96 — Ordering of coercive detention
Section 97 — Enforcement of coercive detention
Section 98 — Enforcement against juveniles and adolescents
Section 99 — Enforcement of incidental consequences constituting an obligation to effect payment
Section 100 — Subsequent decisions on confiscation
Section 101 — Enforcement against the estate
Section 102 — Subsequent criminal proceedings
Section 103 — Decision of the court
Section 104 — Procedure in case of court decisions
Section 105 — Decision on costs
Section 106 — Assessment of costs
Section 107 — Fees and expenses
Section 108 — Legal remedy and enforcement
Section 108a
Section 109 — Costs in case of withdrawal and rejection of objection
Section 109a
Section 110
Section 110a — Electronic filing; power to issue statutory instruments
Section 110b — Electronic forms; empowerment to issue statutory instruments
Section 110c — Corresponding application of the Code of Criminal Procedure to filing and communication in proceedings
Section 111 — Stating false names
Section 112 — Violation of the house rules of a legislative organ
Section 113 — Unauthorised gatherings
Section 114 — Entering military installations
Section 115 — Contact with prisoners
Section 116 — Public instigation to regulatory offences
Section 117 — Non-permissible noise
Section 118 — Public nuisance
Section 119 — Grossly offensive and disturbing acts
Section 120 — Prohibition to engage in prostitution
Section 121 — Keeping dangerous animals
Section 122 — Total intoxication
Section 123 — Confiscation, rendering unusable
Section 124 — Use of coats of arms or official flags
Section 125 — Use of the red cross or of the Swiss coat of arms
Section 126 — Abuse of vocational clothing or badges
Section 127 — Production or utilisation of items which may be used to falsify money or documents
Section 128 — Production or dissemination of prints similar to paper money or illustrations
Section 129 — Confiscation
Section 130
Section 131
Section 132 — Restriction of basic rights
Section 133 — Transitional provisions
Section 134 — Transitional arrangement regarding the Act on the Introduction of Electronic Files in Criminal Matters and the Further Promotion of Electronic Legal Transactions (Gesetz zur Einführung der elektronischen Akte in Strafsachen und zur weiteren Förderung des elektronischen Rechtsverkehrs); powers to issue statutory instruments