Egyptian law · Companies and investment

Companies Law

Companies Law (Law 159 of 1981)

Law 159 of 1981Published on 1 October 1981In force since 1 April 1982204 articles

In force

Source: Official Gazette, issue 40, of 1 October 1981

Source of this law: an unofficial copy; a second copy agrees with it on 84.9% of the articles; being matched against the Official GazetteAn amendment not yet applied: Law 120 of 1982, Law 17 of 1990, Law 4 of 2018…

The articles

Issuing articles

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Articles of the law

Articles 1–93

1 1 bis 2 3 4 4 bis 5 6 7 8 9 9 bis 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 19 bis 20 21 21 bis 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 76 bis 77 77 bis 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93

Articles 94–184

94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 129 bis 130 131 132 133 134 135 135 bis 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 154 bis 155 156 156 bis 157 157 bis 158 159 160 160 bis 161 162 163 164 164 bis 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184

Amending laws

Law 17/2015 · published 12 March 2015, in force from 13 March 2015
Law 194/2020 · published 15 September 2020, in force from 16 September 2020
Law 159/2023 · published 25 July 2023, in force from 26 July 2023
Law 120/1982
Law 159/1998
Law 17/1990
Law 203/1991
Law 3/1998
Law 4/2018

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