Executive Decree on the Application of the Intercantonal Concordat concerning the Costs of Execution of Sentences and Other Measures and of the Legislative Decree concerning the Costs of Internment, Care and Placement Ordered in Application of the Swiss Penal Code

The Director of the Cantonal Penitentiary is the authority responsible for the implementation of the concordat of 23 June 1944 concerning the costs of executing sentences and other measures and for relations with other Cantons.

He is also responsible for the application of the legislative decree of April 19, 1943, concerning the costs of internment, care, and placement ordered in application of the Swiss Penal Code.

All cantonal judicial or administrative authorities that pronounce a judgment or a decision ordering a measure contemplated by the Swiss Penal Code (Arts. 14, 15, 42, 43, 44, 45, 84, 85, 91, 92, 93) are obliged to notify a copy thereof to the director of the Penitentiary as soon as the judgment or decision has become final and binding.

The Department of Justice is responsible for overseeing the implementation of this decree and for issuing the necessary instructions for its application.

This decree enters into force with its publication in the Bulletin of Laws and Executive Acts of the Canton.

Published in BU 1945, 125.