Law on the Duty on Matches and Lighters

Type

Law

Date of the text

24/05/1935

Official Gazette

published in 1935

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

6

What it provides

This law imposes fees on matches and lighters and other fire-producing devices, collected by customs on import and by the monopoly department on other occasions, scaled to the number of matches per box and the type of material, abolishes the tolerance on match counts, and requires lighter parts to be stamped.

What has changed this text

• Amended by Decree-Law No. 182/1942 of 30/05/1942, articles 1

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1935. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.