Providing for the Application of Certain Provisions of the New Penal Code

Type

Law

Date of the text

01/04/1944

Official Gazette

published in 1944

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

1

What it provides

This law makes articles 270 to 349 of the new Penal Code immediately applicable upon publication, as an exception to the prior provision of Legislative Decree 340 that governed their entry into force.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1944. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.