Amendment of the Sharia Courts System

Type

Decree-Law

Number

53

Date of the text

12/03/1953

Official Gazette

published in 1953

Status today

Repealed in part as of 27/08/2026

Articles

3

What it provides

This legislative decree amends several articles of the Sharia courts system, covering eligibility for the qualifying examination, requirements for appointing Jaafari Sharia judges and the head of the Higher Sharia Court, how judges are appointed and promoted, and the staffing table of judicial assistants in the Sharia

What has changed this text

• Partly repealed by Law No. 0/1957 of 07/05/1957

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.