Law of 28 August 1984 Creating and Governing Savings and Housing Banks (BELS)
- Published in Le Moniteur No. 64 of 6 September 1984, under the signature of Jean-Claude Duvalier.
- It supersedes the law of 15 July 1974 that first authorised the creation of housing banks.
- Its visas tie it to the rent law of 14 September 1947, the sociétés anonymes texts of 1955 to 1984, and the decree of 28 September 1977 on land conservation and registration.
- The BRH publishes it as standing law alongside the decree of 14 November 1980 on banking operations.
The law of 28 August 1984 creating and governing Haiti's savings and housing banks, published in Le Moniteur No. 64 of Thursday 6 September 1984 under the signature of Jean-Claude Duvalier.
Its visas place it squarely in the property-finance framework of the period: titles III and IV of the Commercial Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, the law of 14 September 1947 on rents as completed by the decree of 29 January 1959 and the law of 19 July 1961, the successive texts on sociétés anonymes from 1955 to 1984, the decree-law of 27 November 1969 on notaries, the law of 15 July 1974 authorising housing banks, the decree of 28 September 1977 on land conservation and registration, the 1978 stamp-duty decree and the 1979 decree on the property tax on built premises.
It matters to the corpus because the BRH publishes it as standing law beside the 1980 banking decree, and because housing finance in Haiti still runs through the institutional category this law created.
How to cite
Legislative Body of Haiti, Law of 28 August 1984 Creating and Governing Savings and Housing Banks (BELS), https://www.brh.ht/infos-legales/
- Rights holder
- Government of Haiti