What Made the Law Official?

According to the article "Les aggressions sexuelles condamnées par les lois haïtiennes" or "Sexual assault condemned by Haitian laws" printed in French on July 20, 2007 in the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste (http://www.lenouvelliste.com/), the revisions to the Penal Code were completed on July 6, 2005, but laws are essentially functionless until they are printed in Le Moniteur, the official newspaper of Haiti. Le Moniteur officially released the revisions on August 11, 2005. I found it peculiar that Le Moniteur waited to print the laws, rendering them useless for a month--but what is even more alarming is the fact that few people had access to the law until it was printed in Le Nouveliste two years after the law was signed. Le Moniteur is not accessible to the general Haitian public; only select urban libraries and prominent lawyers are granted access, according to Duke University Professor Jean Casimir. Thankfully, I found the August 11 Le Moniteur article through the Global Legal Information Network, a public database of international laws (www.glin.gov). The twenty-four page document is in French legal jargon and is difficult to read. As I understand it, Le Moniteur notarizes the law, but has no responsibility to provide an explanation that is accessible to the general public. I will keep searching to find a media outlet that does!