• PREAH REACH KRAM

• PREAMBLE

• CHAPTER I  ON THE SOVEREIGNTY

• CHAPTER II  ON THE KING

• CHAPTER III  ON THE RIGHTS ANT DUTIES OF KHMER CITIZENS

• CHAPTER IV  ON THE POLITICAL REGIME

• CHAPTER V  ON THE ECONOMY

• CHAPTER VI  ON THE EDUCATION, THE CULTURE AND THE SOCIAL AFFAIRS

• CHAPTER VII  ON THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

• CHAPTER VIII NEW  ON THE SENATE

• CHAPTER IX NEW  ON THE CONTRESS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND THE SENATE

• CHAPTER X NEW  ON THE ROYAL GOVERNMENT

• CHAPTER XI NEW  ON THE JUDICIARY

• CHAPTER XII NEW  ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL

• CHAPTER XIII NEW  ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION

• CHAPTER XIV NEW  ON THE NATIONAL CONGRESS

• CHAPTER XV NEW (TWO)  ON THE ELECTION BODY

• CHAPTER XVI NEW (TWO)  ON THE EFFECT, THE REVISION AND THE AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION

• CHAPTER XVII NEW  ON THE TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

• ANNEX 1  NATIONAL FLAG

• ANNEX 2   NATIONAL ANTHEM

• ANNEX 3  NATIONAL COAT OF ARMS

• ANNEX 4  THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE OF THE KING

• ANNEX 5  THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE OF PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENTS, AND MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

• ANNEX 6   THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE OF PRIME MINISTER AND MEMBERS OF ROYAL GOVERNMENT

• ANNEX 7  THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE OF PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENTS, AND MEMBERS OF THE SENATE

• THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE FOR THE DRAFTING OF THE CONSTITUTION

• ADDITIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AIMING TO ENSURE THE REGULAR FUNCTIONING OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

• Article 76 new
•         The National Assembly shall comprise at least 120 members.

•         The Members of the National Assembly shall be elected by a universal, free, equal, direct suffrage and secret ballot.

•         The National Assembly’s Members are re-eligible.

•         Khmer citizens of both sexes, enjoying the right to vote, aged at least 25 years and having Khmer nationality by birth, have the right to be candidates to the National Assembly.

•         The modalities and functioning of the elections shall be determined by the electoral law.

• Article 77.
•         The Members of the National Assembly are the representatives of the whole Khmer Nation and not of the only citizens from their constituencies.

•         Any imperative mandate shall be considered as null.

• Article 78.
•         The legislature of the National Assembly is of 5 years and shall terminate on the day of the new National Assembly entering in function. The National Assembly cannot be dissolved before the end of its mandate, except in the case when the Royal government has been voted out twice within a period of 12 months.

•         In this case, the King shall, on the proposal from the Prime Minister and with the approval of the President of the National Assembly, dissolve the National Assembly.

•         The election of the new National Assembly shall take place at the latest within 60 days, counting from the date of dissolution of the National Assembly.

•         During this period, the Royal Government is only in charge of the day-to-day affairs.

•         In time of war or in other exceptional circumstances when it is impossible to organize the elections, the National Assembly may, on the proposal from the King, declare the prorogation of its legislature for one year each time.

•         The declaration on the extension of the National Assembly’s legislature must be adopted by at least two-third of all its Members.

• Article 79.
•         The mandate of the Member of the National Assembly is incompatible with the active functions in the civil service and with the functions as member of any other institution stipulated in the Constitution, except those exercised in the Council of Ministers of the Royal Government.

•         In this case, the concerned Member of the National Assembly keeps the quality as an ordinary Member of the National Assembly, but he/she must have no position in the Standing Committee and in the different Commissions of the National Assembly.

• Article 80.
•         Members of the National Assembly shall enjoy parliamentary immunity.

•         No National Assembly’s Member can in any case be prosecuted, arrested, kept in police custody or detained because of his/her opinions or views expressed during the exercise of his/her functions.

•         The prosecution against, the arrest, the police custody or the detention of any Member of the National Assembly is possible only when approved by the National Assembly or by the Standing Committee during the interval between sessions, except in flagrante delicto case. In this last case, the competent ministry must urgently report to the National Assembly or to the Standing Committee for decision.

•         The decision of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee must be submitted to the next session of the National Assembly for adoption by two-third majority of all its Members.

•         In all the aforementioned cases, the detention of, the prosecution against any National Assembly’s Member shall be suspended, if the National Assembly so decided by three-forth majority of all its Members.

• Article 81.
•         The National Assembly shall have an autonomous budget for its functioning.

•         The National Assembly’s Members shall receive allowances.

• Article 82 new (one)
•         The first session of the National Assembly shall open sixty days at the latest after the elections, upon convocation by the King.

•         Before starting its works, the National Assembly shall declare the validity of each Member's mandate and shall vote separately to elect its President, its Vice-Presidents and all the Members of its various Commissions, by an absolute majority of all its Members.

•         The President of the National Assembly is elected from among its members and shall have only one Khmer nationality.

•         The National Assembly shall adopt its Rules of Procedure by an absolute majority of all its Members.

•         Before taking office, all the National Assembly’s Members shall take the oath according to the text written in Annex 5 of the Constitution.

• Article 83.
•         The National Assembly shall convene in ordinary session twice a year.

•         Each session shall last at least three months. Upon the request from the King or upon the proposal of the Prime Minister or of at least one-third of the National Assembly’s Members, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly shall convene an extraordinary session of the National Assembly.

•         In this case, the precise agenda of the extraordinary session and the date of this session must be brought to the knowledge of the people.

• Article 84.
•         During the interval between the Sessions of the National Assembly, its Standing Committee shall be in charge of the functioning of the National Assembly.

•         The Standing Committee shall be composed of the President of the National Assembly, the Vice-Presidents of the National Assembly, and the Presidents of all the Commissions of the National Assembly.

• Article 85.
•         The meetings of the National Assembly shall take place in the Capital City of the Kingdom of Cambodia, at the National Assembly Meeting Hall, except a decision otherwise specified in the convocation letter for circumstantial reasons.

•         Apart from the aforementioned cases and apart from the location and the date specified in the convocation letter, any other meetings of the National Assembly shall be considered illegal and null in its own full right.

• Article 86.
•         Under the circumstances when the nation is in a state of emergency, the National Assembly shall convene every day, in permanence. The National Assembly has the right to put an end to the aforementioned special circumstances, whenever the situation permits.

•         If the National Assembly cannot convene for imperative reasons, notably in case of territorial occupation by foreign forces, the declaration of the state of emergency must be automatically extended.

•         During the period when the nation is in a state of emergency, the National Assembly cannot in any case be dissolved.

• Article 87.
•         The President of the National Assembly presides over the National Assembly sessions, takes cognizance of the laws and the resolutions adopted by the National Assembly, ensures the implementation of the Rules of Procedure and organizes the international relations of the National Assembly.

•         In case the President of the National Assembly is prevented from performing his/her duties for health reason, or for assuming his/her functions as Head of State ad interim or as Regent, or for being on mission abroad, a Vice-President shall replace him/her.

•         In case of resignation or decease of the President or of the Vice-Presidents, the National Assembly shall elect a new President or new Vice-Presidents.

• Article 88 new (two)
•         The National Assembly sessions shall be public.

•         The National Assembly can convene in camera at the request of the President or of at least one-tenth of its Members, of the King or of the Prime Minister.

•         The session of the National Assembly is only valid, when there is:

•                a- the quorum of over two-third of all its Members for the votes requiring the majority of two-third of all its Members.

•                b- the quorum of over half of all its Members for the votes requiring the absolute majority of all its Members.

• Article 89 new
•         At the request of at least one-tenth of its Members, the National Assembly can invite one or more government members accompanied by expert personalities from any field to clarify to the National Assembly on an issue of particular importance.

• Article 90 new (two)
•         The National Assembly is an organ invested with legislative power which exercises its functions according to the provisions of the Constitution and the laws in force.

•         The National Assembly votes on the national budget, the State planning, the State borrowings and lending, the various pledges of financial warranties, and the creation, modification or abolition of taxes.

•         The National Assembly approves the administrative account.

•         The National Assembly votes the amnesty law.

•         The National Assembly votes the approval or the abrogation of international treaties or conventions.

•         The National Assembly votes the law on war declaration.

•         The aforementioned votes must be approved by an absolute majority of all the National Assembly’s Members.

•         The National Assembly grants a vote of confidence to the Royal Government at the absolute majority of all its Members.

• Article 91 new
•         The Senators, the National Assembly’s Members and the Prime Minister have the initiative of laws.

•         The National Assembly’s Members have the right to propose amendments to the laws, but this proposal is not acceptable if those amendments aim to reduce public incomes or to increase the burden on the citizens.

• Article 92.
•         Any adoption by the National Assembly contrary to the principles of safeguarding the independence, the sovereignty, the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and affecting the political unity or the administrative management of the nation, must be considered null and void. The Constitutional Council is the sole organ competent to pronounce this nullity.

• Article 93 new
•         The law adopted by the National Assembly and definitively reviewed by the Senate, and promulgated by the King, shall come into force in the capital city of Phnom Penh within ten clear days counting from the date of promulgation, and throughout the country within twenty clear days counting from the date of promulgation. However, if the law is declared urgent, it shall come immediately into force on the whole territory of the country as counting from the date of promulgation.

•         The law signed and promulgated by the King shall be published in the Royal Gazette and shall be circulated on the whole territory of the country in the time limit as set above.

• Article 94.
•         The National Assembly creates various necessary commissions. The organization and the functioning of the National Assembly shall be stipulated in the National Assembly’s Rules of Procedure.

• Article 95.
•         In case of decease, resignation or loss of membership of a National Assembly’s Member, which could happen at least six months before the end of the legislature, the replacement must proceed in the conditions set by the National Assembly’s Rules of Procedure and by the Electoral Law.

• Article 96.
•         The National Assembly’s Members have the right to raise questions to the Royal Government. The questions must be put in writing and transmitted through the President of the National Assembly.

•         The answers shall be given by one or several ministers depending on whether the raised issue comes under the responsibility of one or several ministers. If the issue concerns the general policy of the Royal Government, the Prime Minister shall reply in person.

•         The answers by the minister or by the Prime Minister may be in a verbal or written form.

•         The above answers shall be given within seven days after receiving the questions.

•         In case of verbal answer, the President of the National Assembly can decide whether to open the debate or not. If he does not authorize the debate, the answers of the minister or the Prime Minister put an end to the raised questions.

•         If he authorizes the opening of a debate, the authors of the questions, the other orators, the concerned minister or the Prime Minister can discuss and exchange the points of view within a time-frame that cannot exceed one meeting.

•         The National Assembly shall reserve one day a week for questions time.

•         The meetings reserved for the questions and answers cannot in any case be open to any vote.

• Article 97.
•         The Commissions of the National Assembly can invite ministers to give clarifications on issue relating to their responsibility.

• Article 98 new (one)
•         The National Assembly can dismiss a Member of the Royal Government or overthrow the Royal Government by voting a motion of censure at the absolute majority of all its members. In case the Royal Government is overthrown by the National Assembly, the outgoing Royal Government shall only have the duty to lead daily work until a new government comes into office.

•         The motion of censure against the Royal Government must be submitted to the National Assembly by one-third of all its members before the motion of censure can be examined.