CONFIDENTIAL
2
service in Spain wherever in Spain they might choose to live,
bût would have the right of election to the Cortes.
PERSONNEL
5. The chief authority in Gibraltar would be a civilian
Governor (it was implicit that he would be Spanish). The
Deputy Governor and the President of the Assembly would be
Gibraltarians who had chosen Spanish nationality. The
Attorney-General, the Head of the Police, the Controller of
Accounts and the Secretary for Finance and Development would
be Spaniards or Gibraltarians who had chosen Spanish nation-
ality. Members of the Executive Assembly would be Gibraltarians
of whatever nationality.
JUDICIAL SYSTEM
6. Chief Justice or Appeal Court Judge would have to have
discharged one of the offices mentioned in the preceding
paragraph or to have pradised law for ten years in Gibraltar,
or to be a Spanish judge or lawyer. Only the Civil Governor
could dismiss them, with approval of the Gibraltar Supreme
Court (under the 1969 Constitution this in effect means the
Chief Justice), to which there could also be right of final
appeal from decisions of Appeal Court.
FINANCE
7. Spain would possess overall financial sovereignty, with-
out prejudice to which Gibraltar would be granted "wide
budgetary and fiscal autonomy" including its own Treasury,
funds, services and expenditures, and tax system.
Gibraltar
CONFIDENTIAL
/would