• 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 99 new
•         The Senate is an organ vested with legislative power which exercises its functions according to the provisions of the Constitution and the laws in force.

•         The number of the Senators must not exceed half of the total number of the National Assembly’s Members.

•         The Senate is composed of appointed members and members elected at restricted suffrage.

•         The Senators can be appointed anew or re-eligible. Can be candidates to the Senate, Khmer citizens of both sexes enjoying the right to vote, aged 40 years at least and having Khmer nationality by birth.

• Article 100 new
•         Two Senators are appointed by the King.

•         Two Senators are elected by the National Assembly at a relative majority vote.

•         The other Senators are elected at a restricted suffrage.

• Article 101 new
•         The modalities of the organization and the functioning of the appointment and the elections of the Senators as well as the determination of the voters, the electoral colleges and the electoral constituencies must be determined by a law.

• Article 102 new
•         The mandate of the Senate is 6 years and shall terminate on the day the new Senate enters in function.

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

•         The declaration of prorogation of the Senate’s mandate must be adopted by at least two-thirds of all the Senators.

•         Under the aforementioned circumstances, the Senate shall convene every day, in permanence. The Senate has the right to put an end to the aforementioned special circumstances, whenever the situation permits. But, the decision to put an end to the special circumstances when the country is in a state of emergency, must be taken jointly by the Senate and the National Assembly during a Congress of the National Assembly and the Senate except the application of Article 86 of the Constitution.

•         If the Senate 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.

• Article 103 new
•         The Senator’s mandate is incompatible with actively exercising any public function, with the functions as the National Assembly’s Member and with those as member of another institution stipulated in the Constitution.

• Article 104 new
•         The Senators shall enjoy parliamentary immunity.

•         No Senator can in any case be prosecuted, arrested, kept in police custody or detained because of his/her opinions or of the votes expressed during the exercise of his/her functions. The prosecution against, the arrest, the police custody or the detention of a Senator is possible only when approved by the Senate 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 Senate or to the Standing Committee for decision.

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

•         In all the aforementioned cases, the detention of, the prosecution against any Senator shall be suspended, if the Senate so decides by three-forth majority of all the Senators.

• Article 105 new
•         The Senate shall have an autonomous budget for its functioning.

•         The Senators shall receive allowances.

• Article 106 new (two)
•         The first session of the Senate shall open sixty days at the latest after the elections, upon convocation by the King.

•         Before starting its works, the Senate shall declare the validity of each Senator’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 the Senators.

•         The President of the Senate is elected from among its members and shall have only one Cambodian nationality.

•         Before taking office, all the Senators shall take the oath according to the text written in Annex 7 of the Constitution.

• Article 107 new
•         The Senate shall convene in ordinary sessions 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 Senators, the Senate shall convene in an extraordinary session.

• Article 108 new
•         During the interval between the Sessions of the Senate, its Standing Committee shall be in charge of the functioning of the Senate.

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

• Article 109 new
•         The sessions of the Senate shall take place in the Capital City of the Kingdom of Cambodia, at the Senate Meeting Hall, except a decision otherwise specified in the convening act for circumstantial reasons.

•         Apart from the aforementioned cases and apart from the location and the date specified in the convening act, any session of the Senate shall be considered illegal and null in its own full right.

• Article 110 new
•         The President of the Senate presides over the Senate sessions, takes cognizance of the laws and the resolutions adopted by the Senate, ensures the implementation of the Rules of Procedure and organizes the international relations of the Senate.

•         In case the President of the Senate 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 Senate shall elect a new President or new Vice-Presidents.

• Article 111 new (two)
•         The Senate sessions shall be public.

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

•         The session of the Senate 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 relative or absolute majority of all its Members.

•         The number of votes required for the adoption by the National Assembly, as provided in this Constitution, shall also apply to the adoption by the Senate.

• Article 112 new
•         The Senate has duty to coordinate the work between the National Assembly and the Government.

• Article 113 new
•         The Senate shall examine and give its views on draft law or on proposed law adopted by the National Assembly in its first reading, as well as all the questions submitted by the National Assembly, within a period not exceeding one month. In case of urgency, this time frame shall be reduced to five days.

•         If the Senate gives a favorable view, or gives no view, within the provided time limits, the law already adopted by the National Assembly will be submitted for promulgation.

•         If the Senate proposes amendments to these draft laws or these proposed laws, the National Assembly shall immediately examine them in a second reading. The National Assembly shall decide on the sole amendments proposed by the Senate, either by accepting or rejecting them, in totality or in part.

•         A shuttle between the Senate and the National Assembly shall proceed within a limited time frame of one month. This time frame shall be reduced to ten days for the budgetary texts and the laws on finances, and to two days in case of urgency declaration.

•         If the National Assembly exceeds or extends the time frame at its disposal for examination, the time frame by principle allocated for agreement between the two Chambers is increased as much.

•         In case the Senate purely and simply rejects them, the draft laws or the proposed laws cannot be examined by the National Assembly in a second reading, before a time frame of one month. This time frame is reduced to fifteen days for budgetary texts and the laws on finances, and to four days in case of urgency declaration.

•         When examining the draft laws or the proposed laws in a second reading, the National Assembly shall adopt them by open ballot and at the absolute majority of all its Members.

•         The draft laws or the proposed laws, once adopted according to aforementioned modalities, are submitted for promulgation.

• Article 114 new (one)
•         The Senate creates various necessary commissions. The organization and the functioning of the Senate shall be stipulated in the Senate’s Rules of Procedure. These Rules of Procedure are adopted by an absolute majority of all its Members.

• Article 115 new
•         In case of decease, resignation or loss of membership of a Senator, which could happen at least six months before the end of the legislature, the replacement must proceed in the conditions set by the Senate’s Rules of Procedure and by the law pertaining to the appointment and the elections of the Senators.