Law on the General Census

Type

Law

Date of the text

24/11/1931

Official Gazette

published in 1931

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

7

What it provides

This law orders a general census of the population of Lebanon under the civil registry service of the Interior Ministry, names who carries out the count (officials, mukhtars and municipal council members), sets their duties in collecting data and returning forms, and provides fines or short detention for refusal or neg

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.