Draft Urgent Law Referred to Parliament under Decree No. 1603 of 21 July 1971 Amending Paragraph (b) of Article 31 of the Publications Law of 14 September 1962,

Type

Law enacted by Decree

Number

2143

Date of the text

05/11/1971

Official Gazette

published in 1971

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

2

What it provides

Amends paragraph (b) of Article 31 of the 1962 Press Law so that press companies must be owned by Lebanese natural persons or purely Lebanese companies, with nominal shares and a ban on transferring them to others. Contracts violating this are void, punishable by imprisonment and fines, and existing companies get one y

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1971. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.