The Statutes of the staff of the Legislative Assemblies, as a competence reserve in the parliamentary derivative legal order

Abstract

The Spanish Constitution and the various Statutes of Autonomy of the Autonomous Communities make a reservation in favor of their Parliaments for the purpose of internal organization, although not all do so in terms of staff. This article shows how that statutory reserve should be considered as the exclusive power of the Autonomous Community and as a specific power of its Parliamentary Chamber for the purpose of determining the Statutes of the staff of the Legislative Assemblies in the system of sources of the Spanish legal system, establishing itself the distribution system of power in a “prius” in the setting of the normative type, in order that they may have the rank and force of law.