Gherbal National Gazette

Law No. 216

Setting the prison year at nine months

Type
Law
Number
216
Date of the text
30/03/2012
Official Gazette
published in 2012
Status today
In force as of 27/08/2026
Articles
2

What it provides

This law amends Article 112 of the Penal Code so that a prison year counts as nine months for sentences of one year or more, with a day counted as 24 hours and a month as 30 days, excluding those sentenced to indeterminate terms and habitual or recidivist offenders.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 2012. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.

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