Payment of Rent and Extension of Real Estate Lease Contracts

Type

Decision

Number

19

Date of the text

26/01/1940

Official Gazette

published in 1940

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

5

What it provides

This decree requires that property rents be fixed in legal currency, sets how rents stated in other currencies under earlier contracts are paid, and lets tenants whose leases have ended or are ending soon extend them by written request at the existing rent.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1940. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.