Decree-Law on Determining the Number of Political Periodical Publications

Type

Decree-Law

Number

74

Date of the text

13/04/1953

Official Gazette

published in 1953

Status today

Repealed as of 27/08/2026

Articles

2

What it provides

This decree-law caps the number of political daily and periodic publications allowed in Lebanon, requires that a new licence be matched by the closure of two similar newspapers, and bars a publication from setting up independent branches.

What has changed this text

• Partly repealed by Decree-Law No. 121/1983 of 16/09/1983
• Repealed by Decree-Law No. 121/1983 of 16/09/1983
• Repealed by Law No. 69/2026 of 27/08/2026

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.