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 2. After five years, the Self-governing Communities may, by amendment of their Statutes of Autonomy, progressively enlarge their powers within the framework laid down in section 149.

Section 149

1. The State shall have exclusive competence over the following matters:

1. Regulation of basic conditions guaranteeing the equality of all Spaniards in the exercise of their rights and in the fulfilment of their constitutional duties.

2. Nationality, immigration, emigration, status of aliens, and right of asylum.

3. International relations.

4. Defence and the Armed Forces.

5. Administration of Justice.

6. Commercial, criminal and penitentiary legislation; procedural legislation, without prejudice to the necessary specialities in these fields arising from the peculiar features of the substantive law of the Self-governing Communities.

7. Labour legislation, without prejudice to its execution by bodies of the Self-governing Communities.

8. Civil legislation, without prejudice to the preservation, modification and development by the Self-governing Communities of their civil law, or special rights and traditional charters (fueros), whenever these exist. In any event, rules for the application and effectiveness of legal provisions, civil relations arising from the forms of marriage, keeping of records and drawing up to public instruments, bases of contractual liability, rules for resolving conflicts of law and determination of the sources of law in conformity, in this last case, with the rules of traditional charters (fueros) or special laws. 68