Gherbal National Gazette

Law

Personal Status of the Catholic Communities

Type
Law
Date of the text
22/02/1949
Official Gazette
published in 1949
Status today
In force as of 27/08/2026
Articles
296

What it provides

This law sets out the personal status rules for the six Catholic communities, recognising each as a separate legal person with its own regulations while placing them all within the Catholic Church, and provides that existing community rules and acquired rights remain unchanged and that the law is interpreted in light o

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1949. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.

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