This law is enacted by the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia
on May 3, l995 during the Fourth Session of the First Legislature.
CHAPTER I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 1:
Merchants are people or legal entities who conduct acts of commerce and make this their usual profession.
Commerce is the activity of buying and selling merchandise or services, engaged in regularly, for the dual purposes of exchange and profit.
Article 2:
The following are considered to be acts of commerce:
· Purchases for resale, including immovable property;
· The activities of businesses engaged in renting, manufacturing, factoring, transporting, printing, and other services;
· Operations of banking and exchange;
· The furnishing of intermediary services, agencies, employment offices, cultural services, and public performances and exhibitions;
· The operations of construction businesses, purchases or chartering of ships for internal or external navigation, terrestrial, maritime or aerial transport and shipping;
· The different types of insurance;
· Fishing, exploitation of forests and mining.
Article 3:
The following are not considered to be acts of commerce:
· Acts of production not followed by sale;
· Acts of production or services of a family character;
· Artistic production of pure creativity;
· Individual instruction, or instruction delivered by authorized associations.
Article 4:
Artisans whose activity is of familial character are not considered to be merchants.
Article 5:
Persons who only sell the merchandise of their merchant spouses are not considered to be merchants.
Employees who only sell the merchandise of their merchant employers are not considered to be merchants.
Article 6:
The spouse is considered a merchant only if he or she operates a separate business that is itself enrolled in the Commercial Register.
Nonetheless, the consent of the spouse is necessary for that merchant.
Article 7:
Minors, unless they are emancipated, cannot be merchants under the present Law.
Article 8:
The rights and obligations of the merchant are governed by the Commercial Laws in the absence of proof to the contrary.