Replacing Certain Penalties with the Penalty of Free Community Service

Type

Law

Number

138

Date of the text

09/07/2019

Official Gazette

published in 2019

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

7

What it provides

This law allows courts, in non-repeat cases, to replace certain criminal penalties such as short imprisonment or fines with unpaid community service at public bodies or non-profit associations, and sets out how the substitute sentence is calculated, supervised, and returned to the court if not fulfilled.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 2019. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.