Amendment of Certain Provisions of the Commercial Code

Type

Law

Date of the text

30/09/1944

Official Gazette

published in 1944

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

5

What it provides

This law amends several commercial code provisions on forming joint-stock companies, requiring a government licence and a decree approving the company's articles, a principal seat in Lebanon and Lebanese nationality, and setting the board size and minimum share of Lebanese members. It also defines fraudulent bankruptcy

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1944. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.