Law Amending Article 51 of Decree-Law No. 102 of 16/09/1983 (National Defence) and Its Amendments

Type

Law

Number

641

Date of the text

02/06/1997

Official Gazette

published in 1997

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

3

What it provides

This law amends Article 51 of the National Defense legislative decree so that officers passed over for promotion to colonel or lieutenant colonel may resign and retire at the higher rank, and a brigadier general may resign with entitlements calculated at major general rank. A one-time exception extends these benefits t

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law No. 217/2000 of 29/05/2000, articles 1
• Partly repealed by Law No. 217/2000 of 29/05/2000, articles 1

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1997. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.