• 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

Having had a great civilization, a prosperous and glorious Nation extending over a vast territory, a prestige glittering like a diamond;

     Having fallen into a terrifying abyss for the last two decades when we have been undergoing terrible and demeaning sufferings and disasters of the most regrettable way;

     In a burst of consciousness, rising up with a resolute determination in order to unite, to strengthen the national unity, to defend the Cambodian territory, to preserve the precious sovereignty and the marvelous civilization of ANGKOR, to rebuild the Nation to become once again an "Oasis of Peace" based on the system of a liberal multi-party democracy, to guarantee human rights, to ensure the respect of law, to be highly responsible for the destiny of the Nation forever evolving toward progress, development and prosperity.

• Article 1.
•         Cambodia is a Kingdom where the King shall fulfill His functions according to the Constitution and the principles of liberal multi-party democracy.

•         The Kingdom of Cambodia is an independent, sovereign, peaceful, permanently neutral and non-aligned State.

• Article 2.
•         The territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Cambodia shall be absolutely inviolable within its borders as defined in the 1/100,000 scale map made between the years 1933-1953, and internationally recognized between the years 1963 - 1969.

• Article 3.
•         The Kingdom of Cambodia is an indivisible State.

• Article 4.
•         The motto of the Kingdom of Cambodia is: Nation, Religion, King.

• Article 5.
•         The official language and script are those in Khmer.

• Article 6.
•         Phnom Penh is the capital city of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

•         The national flag, anthem and coat of arms are defined in Annexes 1, 2 and 3.

• Article 7.
•         The King of Cambodia shall reign, but not govern.

•         The King is the Head of State for life.

•         The Person of the King shall be inviolable.

• Article 8.
•         The King shall incarnate the symbol of national unity and continuity.

•         The King shall be the guarantor of the national independence, the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and the guarantor for the respect of citizens’ rights and freedom, and of international treaties.

• Article 9.
•         The King shall assume the role as supreme arbiter to ensure the regular functioning of public powers.

• Article 10.
•         The Cambodian monarchy is an elective monarchy.

•         The King has no power to appoint a heir to the throne.

• Article 11 new
•         In case the King cannot as usual perform His duties of Head of State for being seriously ill, as certified by a team of specialized medical doctors chosen by the President of the Senate, the President of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister, the President of the Senate shall perform the duties of Head of State as Regent in His stead.

•         In case the President of the Senate cannot perform his duties of Head of State in the stead of the King, acting as Regent, while the King is seriously ill as stipulated in the aforementioned paragraph, the President of the National Assembly shall perform these duties.

•         In the case stated in the aforementioned paragraph, other dignitaries in the following hierarchy can perform the role of Regent as Acting Head of State:

•                a - First Vice-President of the Senate

•                b - First Vice-President of the National Assembly

•                c - Second Vice-President of the Senate

•                d - Second Vice-President of the National Assembly

• Article 12 new
•         At the decease of the King, the President of the Senate shall perform the role of Head of State ad interim in his capacity as Regent of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

•         In case the President of the Senate cannot perform his duties of Head of State ad interim in his capacity as Regent, the paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 11 new must be implemented.

• Article 13 new
•         Within a period not exceeding seven days, the new King of Cambodia shall be elected by the Crown Council.

•         The members of the Crown Council shall be composed of:

•                -The President of the Senate

•                -The President of the National Assembly

•                -The Prime Minister

•                -The Supreme Patriarchs of the two religious orders, Mahanikaya and Dhammayutikanikaya

•                -The First and Second Vice-Presidents of the Senate

•                -The First and Second Vice-Presidents of the National Assembly

•         The organization and functioning of the Crown Council shall be determined by law.

• Article 14.
•         Shall be elected King of Cambodia, a member of the Royal family, aged at least 30 years, descendant of King Ang Duong or of King Norodom or also of King Sisowath.

•         Before ascending the throne, the King shall take oath as stipulated in Annex 4.

• Article 15.
•         The Consort of the King shall have the title of Queen of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

• Article 16.
•         The Queen of the Kingdom of Cambodia shall have no right to engage in politics, to assume a leading function in State or Government affairs, or to assume an administrative or political role.

•         The Queen of the Kingdom of Cambodia shall devote herself to tasks of social, humanitarian, religious interests, and assist the King in protocol and diplomatic duties.

• Article 17.
•         The provision, in which the King shall reign but not govern, as stipulated in Article 7 paragraph 1 of this Constitution, cannot in any case be modified.

• Article 18 new
•         The King communicates with the Senate and the National Assembly through royal messages.

•         These royal messages cannot be subject to debate at the Senate and the National Assembly.

• Article 19 new (two)
•         The King shall appoint the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers in accordance with the procedures stipulated in Article 119 new (two).

• Article 20.
•         The King grants official audiences twice a month to the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers to report to Him on the situation of the country.

• Article 21.
•         Upon the request of the Council of Ministers, the King shall sign the Royal Decrees of appointment, transfer or dismissal of high-ranking civil and military officials, ambassadors and envoys extraordinary and plenipotentiary.

•         Upon the request of the Supreme Council of Magistracy, the King shall sign the Royal Decrees of appointment, transfer or dismissal of magistrates.

• Article 22 new
•         When the nation faces danger, the King shall make a public proclamation placing the country in a state of emergency, after unanimous agreement from the Prime Minister, the President of the National Assembly and the President of the Senate.

• Article 23.
•         The King is the Supreme Commander of the Royal Khmer Armed Forces. A Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Khmer Armed Forces shall be appointed to command the Armed Forces.

• Article 24 new
•         The King is the President of the Supreme Council of National Defense which shall be created by a law.

•         The King declares war after the approval from the National Assembly and the Senate.

• Article 25.
•         The King receives credentials from ambassadors or envoys extraordinary and plenipotentiary of foreign countries accredited to the Kingdom of Cambodia.

• Article 26 new
•         The King signs and ratifies international treaties and conventions after their approval by the National Assembly and the Senate.

• Article 27.
•         The King holds the right of commuting court’s sentence and the power of pardon.

• Article 28 new
•         The King signs the Kram promulgating the Constitution and the laws adopted by the National Assembly and thoroughly reviewed by the Senate, as well as the Kret upon the proposal from the Council of Ministers.

•         In case of illness and medical treatment abroad, the King can delegate His power of signing the Kram and the Kret to the Head of State ad interim. This delegation of signature is express.

• Article 29 new
•         The King creates and confers national honorific distinctions.

•         The King decides on granting military and civilian grades and titles in accordance with the law.

• Article 30 new
•         During the absence of the King, the President of the Senate shall assume the duties of Head of State ad interim.

•         In case the President of the Senate cannot perform the duties of Head of State ad interim during the absence of the King, these duties shall be assumed in conformity with paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 11 new.

• Article 31.
•         The Kingdom of Cambodia recognizes and respects human rights as enshrined in the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and all the treaties and conventions related to human rights, women’s rights and children’s rights.

•         Khmer citizens are equal before the law, enjoying the same rights, liberties and duties regardless of race, color, sex, language, beliefs, religions, political tendencies, birth origin, social status, wealth or other situations. The exercise of personal rights and liberties by any individual shall not adversely affect the rights and freedom of others. The exercise of such rights and liberties shall be in accordance with the law.

• Article 32.
•         Every person has the right to life, liberty and personal security.

•         Death penalty shall not exist in any way.

• Article 33.
•         Khmer citizens shall not be deprived of their nationality, exiled, or arrested to be extradited to a foreign country, except when there is a mutual agreement.

•         Khmer citizens residing abroad are under the protection of the State.

•         The acquisition of Khmer nationality shall be determined by law.

• Article 34 new (one)
•         Khmer citizens of both sexes shall enjoy the right to vote and to stand as candidates for the election.

•         Khmer citizens of both sexes, at least eighteen years old, have the right to vote.

•         Khmer citizens of both sexes, at least twenty-five years old, have the right to stand as candidates for the elections of Members of Parliament.

•         Khmer citizens of both sexes, at least forty years old, have the right to stand as candidates for the elections of the members of the Senate.

•         Provisions depriving of the right to vote and the right to stand as candidates for the elections shall be determined by law.

• Article 35.
•         Khmer citizens of both sexes have the right to participate actively in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the nation.

•         All requests from citizens shall be given full consideration and resolution by the State’s organizations.

• Article 36.
•         Khmer citizens of both sexes have the right to choose any employment according to their ability and to the needs of the society.

•         Khmer citizens of both sexes shall receive equal pay for equal work.

•         The work of housewife at home shall have equal value as the remunerated work done outside the home.

•         Khmer citizens of both sexes shall have the right to enjoy social security and other social benefits as determined by law.

•         Khmer citizens of both sexes shall have the right to create trade unions and to participate as their members.

•         The organization and functioning of the trade unions shall be determined by law.

• Article 37.
•         The rights to strike and to organize peaceful demonstrations shall be exercised within the framework of law.

• Article 38.
•         The law guarantees against physical abuse of any person.

•         The law protects the life, the honor and the dignity of the citizens.

•         The prosecution, arrest, police custody or detention of any person could be carried out only in accordance with the law.

•         The coercion, physical punishment or any other treatment aggravating the penalty of the detainee or prisoner shall be forbidden. The author of such acts, co-authors and accomplices shall be punished according to the law.

•         Confessions obtained by physical torture or mental pressure shall not be admissible as evidence of guilt.

•         The doubt shall benefit the accused.

•         Any accused is presumed innocent up to the final verdict of the court.

•         Any individual shall have the right to his/her own defense through the judicial system.

• Article 39.
•         Khmer citizens have the right to denounce, make complaints, or file claims for reparations of damages caused by any illegal actions by state and social organizations or by staff of those organizations. The settlement of complaints and the reparations of damages are of the competence of the courts.

• Article 40.
•         Citizen’s freedom to travel, far or near, and to legally settle down shall be respected.

•         Khmer citizen has the right to settle abroad or to return home.

•         The protection of the rights to the inviolability of residence and to the confidentiality of correspondences by mail, telegram, telex, facsimile and telephone shall be guaranteed.

•         Search of residences, properties and body search shall be done in accordance with the legal stipulations.

• Article 41.
•         Khmer citizens shall have the freedom to express their personal opinions, the freedom of the press, the freedom of publication and the freedom of assembly. No one can take abusively advantage of these rights to impinge on dignity of others, to affect the good mores and custom of society, public order and national security.

•         The regime of the media shall be regulated by law.

• Article 42 new
•         Khmer citizens shall have the right to create associations and political parties. This right shall be determined by law.

•         Political party shall place the interest of the nation first and shall not conduct directly or indirectly any activity affecting the interest of the Kingdom of Cambodia and Khmer citizens.

•         Khmer citizens may participate in mass organizations for mutual assistance, protection of national realizations and social order.

• Article 43.
•         Khmer citizens of both sexes shall have the full right of belief.

•         Freedom of belief and religious practice shall be guaranteed by the State, provided that such freedom and religious practice do not impinge on other beliefs or religions, on public order and security.

•         Buddhism is the State’s religion.

• Article 44.
•         All persons, individually or collectively, shall have the right to ownership. Only natural person or legal entity of Khmer nationality shall have the right to land ownership.

•         Legal private ownership shall be protected by law.

•         Expropriation shall be possible only if public utility demands in the cases stipulated by the law and if prior appropriate and fair compensation is granted.

• Article 45.
•         All forms of discrimination against women shall be abolished.

•         The exploitation of women’s labor shall be prohibited.

•         Men and women have equal rights in all fields, especially with respect to those of marriage and family.

•         Marriage shall be done according to the conditions set by the law and based on the principles of mutual consent and monogamy.

• Article 46.
•         Human trafficking, exploitation of prostitution and obscenities which affect the dignity of women shall be prohibited.

•         The dismissal of woman worker for reason of pregnancy shall be prohibited. Woman shall have the right to take maternity leave with full pay and with guarantee of her seniority in employment and of other social benefits.

•         The State and the society shall create conditions to allow women, especially the destitute ones living in rural areas, to benefit from assistance for having a profession, for medical cares, for their children education and for decent living conditions.

• Article 47.
•         Mother and father shall have the obligation to take care of their children, to bring them up and to educate them in order to become good citizens.

•         Children shall have the duty to attend to the needs of their aged parents and to take good care of them in accordance with Khmer custom.

• Article 48.
•         The State shall assure the protection of children’s rights as enshrined in the Convention on Children, especially, the right to life, the right to education, the right to protection during wartime and the right to protection from economic or sexual exploitation.

•         The State shall protect children from all kinds of labour that can be detrimental to their education and their schooling, or to their health or their welfare.

• Article 49 new
•         Every Khmer citizen shall respect the Constitution and the laws.

•         Khmer citizens shall place the interest of the nation first and shall not conduct directly or indirectly any activity affecting the interest of the Kingdom of Cambodia and Khmer citizens.

•         Every Khmer citizen has the obligation to participate in the national construction and to defend the motherland.

•         The obligation to defend the motherland shall be done in accordance with the provisions of the law.

• Article 50.
•         Khmer citizens of both sexes shall respect the principles of national sovereignty and liberal multi-party democracy.

•         Khmer citizens of both sexes shall respect public property and legitimate private property.

• Article 51 new
•         The Kingdom of Cambodia implements a policy of liberal multi-party democracy.

•         Khmer citizens are masters of their country’s destiny.

•         All powers shall belong to the citizens. The citizens shall exercise their powers through the National Assembly, the Senate, the Royal Government and the Jurisdictions.

•         The powers shall be separated between the legislative power, the executive power and the judicial power.

• Article 52.
•         The Royal Government of Cambodia shall commit itself resolutely to preserve and defend the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Cambodia, implement a policy of national reconciliation to ensure national unity, and protect the good mores and custom of the nation. The Royal Government of Cambodia shall defend the legality and ensure public order and security. The State shall give priority to the living conditions and welfare of citizens.

• Article 53 new
•         The Kingdom of Cambodia maintains resolutely a policy of permanent neutrality and non-alignment. The Kingdom of Cambodia coexists peacefully with its neighbors and with all other countries throughout the world.

•         The Kingdom of Cambodia shall never invade any country, nor interfere in any other country's internal affairs, directly or indirectly, and shall solve any problems peacefully with due respect for mutual interests.

•         The Kingdom of Cambodia shall absolutely oppose any foreign interference in any form in its internal affairs.

•         The Kingdom of Cambodia shall not join in any military alliance, nor conclude any military agreement which is incompatible with its policy of neutrality.

•         The Kingdom of Cambodia shall not authorize any foreign military base on its territory, nor have its own military bases abroad, except within the framework of a United Nations request.

•         The Kingdom of Cambodia reserves the right to receive foreign assistance in military equipment, armaments, ammunition, in training of its armed forces, and other assistance for self-defense and for ensuring public order and security within its territory.

• Article 54.
•         The manufacture, use and storage of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons shall be absolutely prohibited.

• Article 55.
•         Any treaty and agreement incompatible with the independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, neutrality and national unity of the Kingdom of Cambodia shall be abrogated.

• Article 56.
•         The Kingdom of Cambodia implements the market economy system.

•         The organization and the functioning of this economic system shall be determined by the law.

• Article 57.
•         Tax can be collected only when it is authorized by a law. The national budget shall be laid down and carried out in accordance with the law.

•         The monetary management and the financial system shall be determined by the law.

• Article 58.
•         State property notably consists of land, underground, mountains, sea, sea-bed, undersea-bed, coastline, airspace, islands, rivers, canals, streams, lakes, forests, natural resources, economic and cultural centers, national defense bases, other building facilities belonging to the State.

•         The administration, the utilization and the assignment of State’s properties shall be determined by the law.

• Article 59.
•         The State shall preserve and protect the environment and the balance of natural resources, by organizing a precise planning for the management, especially of the land, water, atmosphere, air, geology, ecological systems, mines, energy, petroleum and gas, rocks, sand, gems, forests and forest by-products, wildlife, fish and aquatic resources.

• Article 60.
•         Citizens have the right to freely sell and exchange their own products. The obligation to sell products to the State or the appropriation, even temporarily, of private riches or possessions by the State shall be prohibited, except under conditions specially authorized by the law.

• Article 61.
•         The State shall promote economic development in all fields, especially in agriculture, handicraft, industry, to begin with the remotest areas, with concern for water policy, electricity, roads and means of transportation, modern techniques and credit system.

• Article 62.
•         The State shall be concerned with resolving the means of production, sustaining the prices of agricultural and handicraft products, and helping find markets for these products to be sold.

• Article 63.
•         The State shall attend to regulating the markets in order to secure a suitable living standard for the citizens.

• Article 64.
•         The State shall forbid individuals to import, manufacture or sell illicit drugs, counterfeit products, expired goods harmful to the consumers’ health and life, and shall severely punish them.

• Article 65.
•         The State shall protect and promote the right of the citizen to a quality education at all levels and shall take every measure to progressively make this education available to all the citizens.

•         The State shall put emphasis on the field of physical education and sports for the benefit of all the Khmer citizens’ well-being.

• Article 66.
•         The State shall establish a comprehensive and unified system of education throughout the country, capable of guaranteeing the principles of freedom of education and equal access to schooling, in order to offer each citizen the equal opportunity for the betterment of his/her living conditions.

• Article 67.
•         The State implements a curriculum and modern pedagogic principles including the teaching of technology and foreign languages.

•         The State shall oversee public and private educational establishments and classes at all cycles.

• Article 68.
•         The State shall ensure for all citizens free primary and secondary education at public schools.

•         Citizens shall receive schooling for at least nine years.

•         The State shall help propagate and promote the Pali schools and the Buddhist education.

• Article 69.
•         The State has the obligation to preserve and develop national culture.

•         The State has the obligation to protect and develop the Khmer language according to the needs.

•         The State has the obligation to preserve and protect the ancient monuments, antiques, and to restore the historical sites.

• Article 70.
•         Any offence affecting or relating to cultural heritage and artistic heritage shall be severely punished.

• Article 71.
•         The perimeter of national heritage sites as well as of those classified as world heritage sites shall be considered as neutral zone forbidden to any military activity.

• Article 72.
•         The health of the people shall be guaranteed. The State shall give full consideration to disease prevention and medical cares. Poor people shall receive free medical consultations in public hospitals, infirmaries and maternities.

•         The State shall establish infirmaries and maternities in rural areas.

• Article 73.
•         The State shall give full consideration for children and mothers, by encouraging the creation of nurseries and by attending to women without support who have many children under their cares.

• Article 74.
•         The State shall provide assistance to the disabled persons and to the families of combatants who sacrificed their lives for the nation.

• Article 75.
•         The State shall establish a social security regime for workers and employees.

• 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.

• 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.

• Article 116 new
•         In case of necessity, the National Assembly and the Senate can convene in Congress to resolve the important issues of the country.

• Article 117 new
•         The important issues of the country as provided in the above-mentioned Article 116 new, as well as the organization and functioning of the Congress shall be determined by a law.

• Article 118 new (one)
•         The Council of Ministers is the Royal Government of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

•         The Council of Ministers shall be headed by a Prime Minister, assisted by Deputy Prime Ministers as well by Senior Ministers and Ministers as members.

• Article 119 new (two)
•         On the proposal of the party with the most seats in the National Assembly, the King appoints a high-ranking personality as Prime Minister to form the Royal Government. This proposal from the party with the most seats in the National Assembly must be copied to the President of the National Assembly. The high-ranking personality appointed as Prime Minister must be a Member of the National Assembly holding only one Khmer nationality and be chosen from the party with the most seats in the National Assembly. This assigned high-ranking personality, accompanied by his collaborators who are Members of the National Assembly or Members of the parties represented at the National Assembly and who are in charge of ministerial functions within the Royal Government, solicits the confidence from the National Assembly. The vote of confidence must be done to the list of composition of the Council of Ministers. Once the National Assembly has voted the confidence, the King signs a Royal Decree appointing the whole Council of Ministers.

•         Before taking office, the Council of Ministers shall take the oath according to the text written in Annex 6.

•         At the end of each legislature of the National Assembly, the outgoing Royal Government has only duty on daily work until a new Royal Government takes office.

• Article 120 new (former Article 101)
•         The function of Member of the Royal Government is incompatible with any professional activity in the field of trade or industry and with the holding of any position in the civil service.

• Article 121 new (former Article 102)
•         All the Members of the Royal Government are collectively responsible to the National Assembly for the general policy of the Royal Government.

•         Each Member of the Royal Government is individually responsible to the Prime Minister and to the National Assembly for his/her own actions.

• Article 122 new (former Article 103)
•         The Members of the Royal Government cannot resort to a written or verbal order from whomever to decline their own responsibility.

• Article 123 new (former Article 104)
•         The Council of Ministers shall convene every week in plenary session or in working session.

•         The plenary session is chaired by the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister can delegate to a Deputy Prime Minister the chairmanship of the working sessions.

•         All the minutes of the Council of Ministers’ sessions shall be submitted to the King for His highest Information.

• Article 124 new (former Article 105)
•         The Prime Minister can delegate his/her powers to a Deputy Prime Minister or to a Member of the Royal Government.

• Article 125 new (one)
•         In case of a temporary absence of the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister shall assign one Deputy Prime Minister to be an Acting Prime Minister to temporarily lead the Council of Ministers.

•         In case of definitive vacancy in the post of Prime Minister, notably due to decease or resignation, a new Council of Ministers must be immediately appointed in accordance with the conditions stipulated in this Constitution. The president of the National Assembly must immediately call for a National Assembly meeting and take other necessary measures within seven days at the latest after receiving a proposal from the party having the majority of the seats in the National Assembly.

•         In case of definitive vacancy in the post of Prime Minister, due to decease or resignation, the outgoing Council of Ministers, under the leadership of a Deputy Prime Minister who was assigned as Acting Prime Minister has only the duty of the daily work until a new Council of Ministers takes office.

•         The letter of resignation from the post of Prime Minister must be sent to the King, and copied for the President of the National Assembly. In this case, the outgoing Council of Ministers must continue to conduct the work of the Royal Government until the new Council of Ministers takes office.

• Article 126 new (former Article 107)
•         Members of the Royal Government hold penal responsibility for the major or minor offences while performing their functions.

•         In this case and in the case of serious misdeeds committed by a Member of Royal Government while performing his/her functions, the National Assembly can decide to seize the competent jurisdictions.

•         The National Assembly shall decide on such matter in a secret ballot by an absolute majority of all its Members.

• Article 127 new (former Article 108)
•         The organization and functioning of the Council of Ministers are stipulated by a law.

• Article 128 new (former Article 109)
•         The Judicial power is an independent power.

•         The Judicial power is the guarantor of impartiality and the protector of the citizens’ rights and liberties.

•         The Judicial power covers all litigations, including administrative litigation.

•         This power is entrusted to the Supreme Court and to the Jurisdictions of the various categories and at all the degrees.

• Article 129 new (former Article 110)
•         Justice is rendered in the name of Khmer people in accordance with the legal procedures and the laws in force.

•         Only the judges are vested with the judicial function. The judges shall fulfill their duties in strict respect of the law, in all honesty and conscientiousness.

• Article 130 new (former Article 111)
•         No organ of the Legislative Power or of the Executive Power can exercise any judicial power.

• Article 131 new (former Article 112)
•         Only the public prosecution has the right to take public action.

• Article 132 new (former Article 113)
•         The King is the Guarantor of the independence of the Judiciary. The Supreme Council of Magistracy assists the King in this task.

• Article 133 new (former Article 114)
•         The Magistrates are irremovable. However, the Supreme Council of Magistracy shall pronounce disciplinary sanctions against the Magistrates committing misdeeds.

• Article 134 new (former Article 115)
•         The Supreme Council of Magistracy shall be created by an Organic Law which determines its composition and attributions.

•         The Supreme Council of Magistracy is placed under the Presidency of the King. The King can designate His Representative to preside over the Supreme Council of Magistracy.

•         The Supreme Council of Magistracy submits to the King the proposal for appointment of judges and public prosecutors to all the Jurisdictions.

•         To decide disciplinary sanctions against the judges and the public prosecutors, the Supreme Council of Magistracy convenes under the presidency of the Supreme Court’s President or of the General Public Prosecutor to the Supreme Court, whether the case relates to the judges or the public prosecutors.

• Article 135 new (former Article 116)
•         The statutes of judges and public prosecutors and the judicial organization shall be stipulated in separate laws.

• Article 136 new
•         The Constitutional Council shall have the competence to guarantee the respect of the Constitution, to interpret the Constitution and the laws adopted by the National Assembly and definitively reviewed by the Senate.

•         The Constitutional Council has the right to examine and to decide on litigations related to the elections of the Members of the National Assembly and to the elections of the Senators.

• Article 137 new (one)
•         The Constitutional Council is composed of nine Members whose mandate is limited to nine years. One-third of its Members shall be renewed every three years. Three Members shall be appointed by the King, three elected by the National Assembly and three others elected by the Supreme Council of Magistracy.

•         The President is elected by the Members of the Constitutional Council, from among the members and shall have only one Khmer nationality by birth. In case of a tie in the voting, the voice of the President prevails.

• Article 138 new (former Article 119)
•         The Members of the Constitutional Council shall be chosen among the high- ranking personalities holding high diplomas in law, in administration, in diplomacy or in economics and having extensive professional experience.

• Article 139 new
•         The functions as member of the Constitutional Council are incompatible with the functions as senator, as member of the National Assembly, as member of the Royal Government, as incumbent magistrate, as personnel in the civil service, as President or Vice-President of a political party or as President or Vice-President of a trade union.

• Article 140 new
•         The King, the Prime Minister, the President of the National Assembly or one-tenth of the National Assembly’s Members, the President of the Senate or one-fourth of the Senators, may send the laws adopted by the National Assembly to the Constitutional Council for examination before their promulgation.

•         The rules of procedure of the National Assembly, the rules of procedure of the Senate and the organic laws must be sent to the Constitutional Council for examination before their promulgation. The Constitutional Council shall decide within the time frame of thirty (30) days at the latest, whether the laws, the rules of procedure of the National Assembly and those of the Senate are or not in conformity with the Constitution.

• Article 141 new
•         After a law has been promulgated, the King, the President of the Senate, the President of the National Assembly, the Prime Minister, one-fourth of the Senators, one-tenth of the National Assembly’s Members, or the Courts can request the Constitutional Council to examine the constitutionality of that law.

•         Any citizen has the right to contest about the constitutionality of the laws through the intermediary of the National Assembly’s Members or that of the President of the National Assembly or of the Senators or of the President of the Senate, as provided in the aforementioned paragraph.

• Article 142 new (former Article 123)
•         A provision of any article, declared by the Constitutional Council not in conformity with the Constitution, cannot be promulgated or implemented.

•         The decision of the Constitutional Council is final without recourse.

• Article 143 new (former Article 124)
•         The King consults the Constitutional Council on any proposed amendment of the Constitution.

• Article 144 new (former Article 125)
•         The organization and the functioning of the Constitutional Council are subject to an organic law.

• Article 145 new (one)
•         The territory of the Kingdom of Cambodia is divided into capital city (Reach Theany), provinces (Khet), municipalities (Krong), districts (Srok), arrondissements (Khan), communes (Khum), Sangkat (quarters).

• Article 146 new (one)
•         Capital city, provinces, municipalities, districts, arrondissements, communes, quarters are administered according to the conditions provided by an organic law.

• Article 147 new (former Article 128)
•         The National Congress allows the citizens to be directly informed on various affairs of national interest, to raise issues and to submit suggestions to the State authorities for a solution.

•         Khmer citizens of both sexes have the right to participate in the National Congress.

• Article 148 new (former Article 129)
•         The National Congress shall meet once a year, in early month of December upon the convening by the Prime Minister.

•         The National Congress shall proceed under the High Presidency of the King.

• Article 149 new
•         The National Congress shall adopt suggestions to be submitted to the Senate, the National Assembly and the State authorities for consideration.

•         The organization and the functioning of the National Congress shall be stipulated by a law.

• Article 150 new (two)
•         The National Election Committee is the body which has the competence for organizing, regulating and administering the elections of the Senators and the elections of the Members of the National Assembly and other elections as determined by law.

•         The National Election Committee shall exercise its competence independently and impartially in order to ensure free, just and fair elections in accordance with the principles of liberal multi-party democracy.

•         The functions as the Members of the National Election Committee are incompatible with the positions in the civil service and the function as the members of other institutions as stipulated in the present Constitution. The member of the National Election Committee cannot be the member of a political party or as president of a non-governmental organization, association, trade unions or any commercial company.

•         The National Election Committee shall have an autonomous budget for its operation.

• Article 151 new (two)
•         The National Election Committee is composed of nine members whose mandate is five years. Four members shall be selected by the political party leading the Royal Government; four shall be selected by the political parties not associated with the Royal Government, having seats in the National Assembly, and the other member shall be selected with the consent of all political parties having seats in the National Assembly.

•         The Permanent Committee of the National Assembly shall organize an open and transparent selection of the members of the National Election Committee and shall prepare the list of the composition of the National Election Committee to submit to the National Assembly for the vote of confidence by an absolute majority of all the Members of the National Assembly.

•         Members of the National Election Committee shall be appointed by Royal Decree.

•         In case any Member of the National Election Committee loses its membership, the Permanent Committee of the National Assembly shall proceed to select the new member within the period of 15 days at the latest from the date of the loss of the membership. Detailed procedures to select a substitute member shall be determined by a separate law.

•         In case of failure to obtain the composition of the National Election Committee, the existing Members of the National Election Committee shall remain in office and shall have competence to organize the election in accordance with the law.

•         The organization and the functioning of the National Election Committee shall be determined by law.

• Article 152 new-two (former Article 150 new)
•         The present Constitution is the supreme law of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

•         All the laws and decisions of all state institutions must be in absolute conformity with the Constitution.

• Article 153 new-two (former Article 151 new)
•         The initiative of the revision or the amendment of the Constitution is the right of the King, of the Prime Minister and of the President of the National Assembly on the proposal from one-fourth of all the National Assembly’s Members.

•         The revision or the amendment of the Constitution must be carried out by a constitutional law adopted by the National Assembly at the two-third majority of all its Members.

• Article 154 new-two (former Article 152 new)
•         The revision or the amendment of the Constitution is prohibited when the nation is in a state of emergency, as provided in the Article 86.

• Article 155 new-two (former Article 153 new)
•         The revision or the amendment of the Constitution cannot be allowed, if it affects the liberal multi-party democracy system and the regime of the constitutional monarchy.

• Article 156 new-two (former Article 154 new)
•         The present Constitution, once adopted, shall be promulgated by the King of Cambodia with immediate effect.

• Article 157 new-two (former Article 155 new)
•         After the present Constitution comes into force, the Constituent Assembly becomes the National Assembly.

•         The Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly shall come into force after their adoption by the National Assembly.

•         In case the National Assembly cannot take its function, the President, the First and the Second Vice-Presidents of the Constituent Assembly fulfill their mission within the Crown Council, if so required by the situation of the country.

• Article 158 new-two (former Article 156 new)
•         After the present Constitution comes into force, the King is elected under the conditions provided for in the Articles 13 new and 14.

• Article 159 new-two (former Article 157 new)
•         The duration of the first legislature of the Senate is five years and comes to an end when the new Senate assumes office.

•         For the first legislature of the Senate:

•                - the total number of Senators shall be sixty-one,

•                - the King shall appoint two Senators, as well as the President and the two Vice-Presidents of the Senate,

•                - the other Senators shall be appointed by the King among the members of the political parties having their seats at the National Assembly, on the proposal from the President of the National Assembly and the President of the Senate,

•                - the Congress of the National Assembly and the Senate shall be held under the chairmanship of the Co-Presidents.

• Article 160 new-two (former Article 158 new)
•         Laws and normative acts in Cambodia that guarantee the protection of the State properties, the rights, the liberties and the legal properties of private persons and that are in conformity with the national interests, shall remain in force until the new texts are made to amend or to abrogate them, except the provisions contrary to the spirit of the present Constitution.

• Article 1.
•         This constitutional law aims at ensuring, under all circumstances, the good functioning of the national institutions while respecting the basic principles of a liberal multi-party democracy, according to the state of necessity.

• Article 2.
•         At the beginning of each legislature, the National Assembly under the presidency of its most senior member, before starting its works and after the validation of each member’s mandate, can proceed to adopt the texts of constitutional or legislative nature within the objective stipulated in the aforementioned Article 1.

•         After their adoption by the National Assembly, the most senior member must immediately take cognizance of these texts in accordance with the procedure reserved for them, until their promulgation and coming into force.

• Article 3 new (one)
•         In the event that the procedures stipulated in the Articles 82 new (one) and 119 new (two) of the Constitution cannot be implemented, the National Assembly, on the proposal of the party having the majority of the seats in the National Assembly, can proceed with the package vote to elect its President and its Vice-Presidents as well as the Chairpersons and Vice-Chairpersons of the Commissions, and at the same time to grant the confidence to the Royal Government.

• Article 4 new (one)
•         The elaboration of the composition lists of candidates for the elections and for the vote of confidence shall be organized as followed:

•         - The list of candidates for President, Vice-President of the National Assembly, as well as of those for Chairman and Vice-Chairman of specialized Commissions, must be prepared and proposed by the political party with the most seats in the National Assembly, then sent to the most senior member of the National Assembly. The President of the National Assembly is chosen from among its members who have only one Khmer nationality.

•         - On the proposal of the political party with the most seats in the National Assembly, the King assigns a high-ranking personality as Prime Minister to form the Royal Government. The high-ranking personality appointed as Prime Minister must be a Member of the National Assembly holding only one Khmer nationality and be chosen from the party with the most seats in the National Assembly. This assigned high-ranking personality prepares the attribution of the different ministerial posts within the Royal Government, then sends the list of all its members to the most senior member of the National Assembly.

•         - The most senior member of the National Assembly shall immediately and without delay prepare these lists and put them into one package list, comprising the candidates for the President and Vice-President of the National Assembly as well as Chairman and Vice-Chairman of all specialized Commissions of the National Assembly as well as the position of the Prime Minister that is appointed by the King and all members of the Royal Government, in order to submit it to the vote of the National Assembly. The most senior member of the National Assembly will chair the National Assembly’s meeting to adopt the list immediately.

•         - The most senior member of the National Assembly shall be chosen as the National Assembly’s most senior member from among all members of the National Assembly. In case this most senior member of the National Assembly cannot fulfill his/her roles, the position of this most senior member shall be entrusted to other National Assembly members who are the next most senior down in age.

• Article 5.
•         No debate is possible during the proceedings of the package vote, neither any explanation is possible after the proclamation of this vote result.

•         The National Assembly’s Members vote in favor of or against this single list, proposed by its most senior member. The vote is done by a show of hands.

• Article 6 new of the Additional Constitutional Law
•         The package vote shall be done at the absolute majority of all the National Assembly’s Members.

•         In case the vote at the first ballot is not decisive, the same procedure shall apply to the following ballots.

• Article 7.
•         This Additional Constitutional Law is declared to be urgent and comes into force right from the beginning of the present legislature.