Amendment of Articles 554, 555, 556, 557 and 559 of the Penal Code with a View to Strengthening the Legal Protection of Physicians, Their Assistants and Hospita

Type

Law

Number

267

Date of the text

05/01/2022

Official Gazette

published in 2022

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

6

What it provides

This law amends several articles of the Penal Code on assault, wounding and injury, increasing penalties for attacks on doctors, their assistants and other medical workers while they work or because of their work. It also raises fines and maximum prison and hard-labour terms where an assault causes illness, incapacity

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 2022. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.