System and Organisation of Civil Defence

Type

Decree-Law

Number

50

Date of the text

05/08/1967

Official Gazette

published in 1967

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

36

What it provides

This legislative decree organizes civil defence as an element of national defence, defining its tasks in peacetime and in emergencies. It grants a unit under the Interior Ministry broad powers such as evacuation, sheltering, clearing dangerous areas, demolition and requisition, and allocates responsibilities among the

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law No. 336/2001 of 02/08/2001
• Amended by Law No. 57/1971 of 09/09/1971, articles 21, 26, 27
• Amended by Decree-Law No. 102/1983 of 16/09/1983
• Partly repealed by Decree-Law No. 102/1983 of 16/09/1983, articles 16, 19, 4, 31
• Amended by Law No. 152/2011 of 17/08/2011
• Amended by Law No. 59/2017 of 17/10/2017, articles 20
• Amended by Decree No. 4378/1993 of 23/11/1993, articles 10
• Amended by Law No. 289/2014 of 30/04/2014, articles 15, 18, 19, 20
• Partly repealed by Law No. 289/2014 of 30/04/2014, articles 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1967. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.