Excerpt from criminal records
Order procedure for business enterprises


Excerpts for individuals may be obtained from the Federal Office of Justice.

Content of excerpt from criminal records from the register of convictions for private individuals

The excerpt from criminal records in two forms

Who can order an excerpt from criminal records?
  • Any person may order an excerpt pertaining to himself (on submission of an identity document and signature)
  • The person checked for criminal records authorizes the Criminal Records Office to send the excerpt directly to the business enterprise paying for the check.

Charges
CHF 17 per excerpt

Attestations
If the excerpt from criminal records is required by a foreign authority / foreign consulate, an attestation by the Federal Chancellery is usually necessary. We will provide the attestation for an additional charge of CHF 20.
Digitally signed electronic criminal records excerpts cannot be authenticated.




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Legislative basis and links:

Attention

New law on criminal records 23.01.2023
On 23 January 2023, the new law on criminal records came into force and VOSTRA, the new criminal records information system, went into operation. This results in several changes:
  • The standard private extract and special extract have a new design.
  • Ordering a standard private extract or a special private extract now costs CHF 17.
  • The new statutory provisions affect how long a judgment is visible on a standard private extract and how long it remains stored in VOSTRA. In addition, the requirements for registering foreign judgments against Swiss nationals were changed.


Special excerpt from the Swiss criminal records
The special excerpt from the Swiss criminal records can be ordered at the beginning of the year 2015.

More information can be found here.