Sub-Decree No. 83 ANK,BK providing for the Procedures of Registration of Land of Indigenous Communities.

The purposes of this Sub-Decree are to determine principles, procedures, and mechanisms for the registration of land of indigenous communities as collective title. The objectives of this Sub-Decree are to provide indigenous communities with legal rights over land tenure, to ensure land tenure security, and to protect collective ownership by preserving the identity, culture, good custom and tradition of each indigenous community. This Sub-Decree has the scope of application for indigenous communities which have legally been established as legal entity in the territory of the Kingdom of Cambodia. General principles that shall be applied to the registration of land of an indigenous community are below: The registration of land of indigenous communities is the registration of all pieces of land of a community as collective title on a single cadastral map. The collective title certificate which will be issued to community should specify the name and location of the community, reference number to the single cadastral map indicating the location, size, boundary, co-ordinates of the land plot collectively owned and certification of the type of land use and other notes. Communities established as a legal entity with registered statute and official recognition can apply for land registration as collective title. Community shall be officially established as legal entity which has internal rule stipulating the management and collective land use as well as setting some conditions such as collective land management and land use according to land type and reconciliation at community level in case of conflict over traditional land use.