Law on the Manufacture of Arak and the Regulation of Industrial Alcohol

Type

Law

Date of the text

07/06/1937

Official Gazette

published in 1937

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

36

What it provides

This law regulates the production of arak and industrial alcohol. It limits the name arak to spirits distilled from fermented grapes and aniseed, treats arak mixed with industrial alcohol as adulterated, sets the permitted production season, requires sealing and registration of stills, and empowers sworn inspectors to

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law No. 89/1991 of 07/09/1991, articles 31, 35

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1937. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.