EXCHANGE OF NOTES BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN REGARDING THE RECIPROCAL ABOLITION OF VISAS
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Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Madrid to the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs
British Embassy,
Your Excellency,
Madrid 4, May 13, 1960.
I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that to facilitate travel between the United Kingdom and Spain and their dependent territories, Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are prepared to conclude an Agreement with the Spanish Government in the following terms:-
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1. Spanish subjects holding valid Spanish passports shall be free to travel from any place whatever to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and dependent territories with the exception of Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Hong Kong, Malta, New Hebrides, Nigeria, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Swaziland and Tonga without the necessity of obtaining a visa in advance.
British subjects and British Protected Persons holding valid passports bearing on the cover the inscription "British Passport" at the top and at the bottom the inscription "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" or "Jersey" or "Guernsey and its Dependencies or the name of a British overseas dependent territory, other than those excepted from this Agreement as listed in sub-paragraph 1 above, and inside the description of the holder's national status as "British subject" or "British subject, Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies or "British subject, Citizen of the United Kingdom, Islands and Colonies" or "British subject, Citizen of the State of Singapore" or British Protected Person", shall be free to enter the Spanish Peninsula, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, by the frontier posts officially designated for this purpose by the Spanish State, and to leave Spain by one of these same posts without the necessity of obtaining a visa.
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3. It is understood that the waiver of the visa requirement shall not exempt Spanish subjects proceeding to any British territory, or British subjects or British Protected Persons proceeding to Spain, from the necessity of complying respectively with the laws and regulations of the British territory concerned, or of Spain, relating to the entry, residence (temporary or permanent) and employment or occupation of foreigners. Travellers, who are unable to satisfy the immigration authorities that they comply satisfactorily with the terms of these laws and regulations, may be refused leave to enter or to land.
4. The right is reserved to the competent authorities of Spain and of all British territories to refuse any person leave to enter or stay in the country concerned in any case where that person is undesirable or otherwise ineligible under the general policy of the respective government relating to the entry of aliens.
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