Amending certain articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure

Type

Decree-Law

Number

58

Date of the text

31/07/1940

Official Gazette

published in 1940

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

4

What it provides

This legislative decree amends the Code of Criminal Procedure on retrial, adding a new ground based on a new act or documents proving the convicted person's innocence, and sets out who may request a retrial, the time limits and conditions, and the procedure for suspending enforcement, as well as cases where the case ca

What has changed this text

• Amended by Decree-Law No. 162/1942 of 13/04/1942, articles 2

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.