LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF ABKHAZIA on Enactment of the Basics of the Civil Legislation of the USSR and Republics

LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF ABKHAZIA on Enactment of the Basics of the Civil Legislation of the USSR and Republics

1. To enact from 15 June 2001 the Basics of the Civil Legislation of the USSR and Republics, approved by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 31 May 1991 that was not enacted due to the dissolution of the USSR.

2. To ascertain that:

- The authority of the USSR and of Republics determined in the given Basics shall be considered as the authority of the Republic of Abkhazia;

- The given basics shall not be applied to the situation that is not in compliance with the Constitution of the Republic of Abkhazia and other legal acts of the Republic of Abkhazia except the Civil Code of the Republic of Abkhazia and the Civil-Procedural Code of the Republic of Abkhazia being in operation in the parts not opposing the Basics.

The Basics of the legislation of the USSR and Republics shall be applied in civil legal relations emerged after enactment of the given Basics, i.e. from 15 June 2001.

4. With regard of civil legal relations emerged before 15 June 2001, the Basics will be applied to those rights and duties that will come up after the Basics are enacted.

5. The terms of lawsuits established by the Basics of Civil Legislation of the USSR and Republics shall apply to the lawsuits, the term of submission of which has not expired until 15 June 2001.

6. To introduce, that the validity of paragraph 3 of Article 50 of the given Basics shall apply to the situation where the property ownership has began before 15 June 2001 and is in force at the moment of enactment of the Basics.

7. The procedure to inherit the deposits, envisaged in paragraph 4 of Article 153 of the Basics, shall apply to the deposits in the Banks regardless of the depository date if the legacy have been introduced after 15 June 2001.

Adopted by the People’s Assembly of the Republic of Abkhazia

President of the Republic of Abkhazia V. Ardzinba

15 June 2001, City of Sukhum

(Collection of the Legislative Acts of the Republic of Abkhazia. 16. Isuue, Sukhum, 2001, p. 90)