This law governs the expropriation of real estate for public benefit against fair and prior compensation. It sets out who may request expropriation, how the declaring decree is issued with its time limit, the documents attached to it, and how it is published and notified to the owners concerned.
What has changed this text
Amended by Decree-Law No. 13/1955 of 05/01/1955, articles 36
Partly repealed by Decree-Law No. 13/1955 of 05/01/1955, articles 39
Amended by Law No. 0/1955 of 13/12/1955, articles 43
Amended by Law enacted by Decree No. 6478/1961 of 14/04/1961, articles 78
Partly repealed by Law enacted by Decree No. 6478/1961 of 14/04/1961, articles 10, 20, 21, 22, 3, 4, 78
Repealed by Law No. 58/1991 of 29/05/1991
Amended by Decree-Law No. 51/1978 of 31/12/1977, articles 1
Amended by Decree-Law No. 51/1977 of 31/12/1977, articles 17
The full text
This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1954. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.