Concerning the Declaration of a State of Emergency

Type

Decree-Law

Number

27

Date of the text

16/02/1953

Official Gazette

published in 1953

Status today

Repealed as of 27/08/2026

Articles

6

What it provides

This decree regulates declaring a state of emergency or military zone during armed disorder or threats to state security, defines the military authority's powers during it, allows certain offences to be referred to military courts, and penalises activity by dissolved bodies and incitement to it.

What has changed this text

• Amended by Decree-Law No. 46/1953 of 04/03/1953, articles 2
• Partly repealed by Decree-Law No. 52/1967 of 05/08/1967
• Repealed by Decree-Law No. 52/1967 of 05/08/1967

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1953. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.