Protection of the Right to Confidentiality of Communications Carried Out by Any Means of Communication

Type

Law

Number

140

Date of the text

27/10/1999

Official Gazette

published in 1999

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

22

What it provides

This law protects the confidentiality of all domestic and international communications, whether by telephone, mobile, fax or email. It allows interception or recording only by a reasoned written order from the first investigating judge in cases of extreme necessity involving offences punishable by at least one year's i

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law No. 158/1999, articles 15, 16
• Corrected by Decree No. 15281/2005 of 01/10/2005
• Corrected by Law No. 158/2000 of 27/12/1999

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1999. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.