This law imposes banking secrecy on Lebanese-chartered banks organized as joint-stock companies and on foreign banks' branches, requiring their staff to keep client names and assets confidential, while listing the exceptions under which disclosure is permitted and the categories to whom secrecy does not apply.
What has changed this text
Amended by Law No. 306/2022 of 28/10/2022
Suspended by Law No. 200/2020 of 29/12/2020
The full text
This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1956. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.