Establishment of licensed money changers authorised to conduct exchange operations as intermediaries

Type

Decision

Number

141

Date of the text

22/03/1943

Official Gazette

published in 1943

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

7

What it provides

This decree regulates money changers during wartime, reserving the purchase of banknotes, currency and foreign-currency instruments to licensed money changers. Licensing requires an application, commitments to daily accounts, periodic sales of purchases to the exchange office, and a financial guarantee.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1943. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.