Legislative Decree on Taking Human Tissues and Organs for Medical and Scientific Purposes

Type

Decree-Law

Number

109

Date of the text

16/09/1983

Official Gazette

published in 1983

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

9

What it provides

This legislative decree permits removing human tissues and organs from living persons and from the dead for treating patients or for scientific purposes, setting the conditions required such as age, written consent and free donation, the order of family priority for consent on behalf of the deceased, and controls on re

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1983. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.