This law replaces Article 562 of the Penal Code on the mitigating excuse, specifying who benefits from it: a person who catches a spouse, ascendant, descendant or sister in flagrant adultery or unlawful intercourse and kills or unintentionally injures one of them.
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.