Scope and Content: Includes complete records of debates, committee reports, bills passed, and roll-call votes of Cambodia’s House of Representatives.
Biographical: Produced by members of the Cambodian legislature during the Kingdom of Cambodia (Norodom Sihanouk era, later Lon Nol era).
Provenance: Deposited by the Secretariat of the National Assembly; preserved in Cambodian national archives.
Accession Number: ACCN-KH-REP-1965-001
Processing Information: Catalogued and bound by National Archives of Cambodia; microfilm copies made in the 1980s; some digital surrogates created in 2005.
Access Restrictions: Restricted; consultation available at National Archives of Cambodia.
Related Materials: Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia (1955); Laws enacted during Sangkum Reastr Niyum era; later National Assembly minutes.
Geographic Coverage: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Temporal Coverage: 1950s–1970s legislative sessions
Preservation Status: Stable but fragile in print; microfilm and partial digitization improve access
Preservation History: Stored in climate-controlled archives since the 1960s; conservation treatments in 1990s.
Retention Policy: Permanent archival retention.
Archival Location: National Archives of Cambodia; Parliamentary Library, Phnom Penh.
Backup Status: Backed up in microfilm and digital repositories.
Parent Collection: Cambodian Parliamentary Records
Sub Collections: House of Representatives Proceedings 1955–1970
Related Items: Senate records; Council of Ministers reports
Accessibility Features: Digitized versions may include OCR; limited screen-reader compatibility
Accessibility Compliance: Not fully WCAG-compliant (depends on digitization).
Copyright Status: In Copyright (government work)
Copyright Holder: National Assembly of Cambodi
License Terms: Research/educational use permitted; reproduction requires authorization.
Jurisdiction: Cambodia
Cultural Significance: Provides historical insight into Cambodia’s parliamentary democracy during its early independence and political transition phases.
Cultural Context: Reflects Cambodia’s attempts at representative governance before periods of conflict and regime change.
Access Statistics: Requested often by historians of Cambodian politics
Citation Information: National Assembly of Cambodia. Minutes of the House of Representatives Meetings. Phnom Penh: Parliament of Cambodia, 1960s editions.
User Feedback: Valuable for understanding Cambodia’s pre-Khmer Rouge political institutions.
Educational Use: Essential primary source for history, Southeast Asian politics, law, and governance research
Curriculum Alignment: University-level courses on Political History of Southeast Asia, Cambodian Studies.
Learning Objectives: 1.Analyze Cambodia’s early parliamentary system. 2.Understand legislation and political debate in a post-colonial Southeast Asian state.
