Addition of a New Paragraph to Article 18 of Decision No. 2851 dated 02/12/1924

Type

Law

Number

541

Date of the text

24/07/1996

Official Gazette

published in 1996

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

1

What it provides

This law adds a paragraph to Article 18 of Decision 2851 barring civil registry and personal status offices from stating in identity cards or registry extracts that a person is illegitimate or of unknown parentage, while allowing such information to be given to the person concerned or a competent court for legitimate r

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1996. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.