Law Granting a General Amnesty for a Category of Contraventions and Misdemeanours

Type

Law

Date of the text

28/05/1931

Official Gazette

published in 1931

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

7

What it provides

This law grants a general amnesty for misdemeanours and minor offences committed before 1 January 1931, whether or not a judgment was issued, excluding listed offences in the Penal Code. It also clarifies that the lapse of the public prosecution does not extinguish private civil claims.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1931. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.