Concerning the Possession and Trade of Goods and Determination of Their Prices

Type

Decree-Law

Number

189

Date of the text

18/06/1942

Official Gazette

published in 1942

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

70

What it provides

This decree-law regulates the holding and trading of goods during the wartime shortage period. It requires declarations when establishing industrial or commercial businesses and for stocks of agricultural, animal and industrial goods, and allows temporary suspension of wholesale trade and controls on customs release of

What has changed this text

• Amended by Decree-Law No. 332/1943 of 20/02/1943
• Amended by Law No. 41/1966 of 22/06/1966, articles 16, 44, 46

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1942. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.