Decision No. 127
This decree bans banks, pawnbrokers, money changers and other persons from lending against gold bars, coins, jewellery or gold goods, accepting them as collateral, or conducting term transactions on them. Violators face fines and confiscation, and contracts breaching the ban are void.
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.
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