Decree-Law on Establishing the Press Syndicate Council

Type

Decree-Law

Number

72

Date of the text

11/04/1953

Official Gazette

published in 1953

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

38

What it provides

This decree-law creates the Press Syndicate Council, based in Beirut, to represent journalists, settle disputes among them, regulate their employment contracts and discipline, and set up a savings fund for them, and it also organizes the journalists' syndicate and its bodies.

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law No. 0/1955 of 25/06/1955, articles 13

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1953. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.