Taken in Implementation of the Mandate Instrument on Provisional Organisation of the Public Authorities of the Lebanese Republic

Type

Decision

Number

246

Date of the text

21/09/1939

Official Gazette

published in 1939

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

6

What it provides

This decree temporarily suspends constitutional provisions on exercising legislative and executive power in Lebanon, dissolves the Chamber of Deputies, and transfers the powers of the prime minister and ministers to a secretary of state under the High Commissioner.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1939. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.