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Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria Act.

Country/Territory
Nigeria
Document type
Legislation
Date
1993 (2013)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to establish the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria to provide long-term credit facilities to mortgage institutions in Nigeria and encourage and promote the development of mortgage institutions at the rural, local, State and Federal levels.
Subject
Land & soil
Keyword
Institution
Geographical area
Africa, North Atlantic, Western Africa
Abstract

This Act provides for the establishment of Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria and its Board of Directors. The functions of the Mortgage Bank shall be to, among other things: (a) provide long-term credit facilities to mortgage institutions in Nigeria at such rates and such terms as may be determined by the Board in accordance with the policy directed by the Federal Government, being rates and terms designed to enable the mortgage institutions to grant comparable facilities to Nigerian individuals desiring to acquire houses of their own; (b) license and encourage the emergence and growth of the required number of viable secondary mortgage institutions to service the need of housing delivery in all parts of Nigeria; (c) encourage and promote the development of mortgage institutions at rural, local, State and Federal levels; (d) supervise and control the activities of mortgage institutions in Nigeria.

Full text
English
Website
www.placng.org