Organisation of the Ministry of National Defence and Determination of the Army Law

Type

Decree-Law

Number

66

Date of the text

10/04/1953

Official Gazette

published in 1953

Status today

Repealed in part as of 27/08/2026

Articles

192

What it provides

This legislative decree organizes the Ministry of National Defense, tasking it with preparing armed defense and forming the army, air force and navy, places the forces under the President, and sets the ministry's structure into a central administration and a high army command.

What has changed this text

• Partly repealed by Decree-Law No. 33/1955 of 19/01/1955
• Amended by Law No. 0/1953 of 28/12/1953

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.