Parliamentary immunity is enshrined in Article 80 of the 1993 Cambodian Constitution, which states that members of the National Assembly can only be prosecuted, arrested or detained with the approval of two-thirds of the National Assembly. The constitution provides one narrow exception to this rule: negating the necessity for a vote if a parliamentarian is caught in the act of committing a crime, more commonly referred to by the Latin term: in flagrante delicto.