Nominally, a
Statute of Autonomy (, , , , ) is a
law hierarchically located under the
constitution of a country, and over any other form of legislation (including
organic laws). This legislative corpus concedes
autonomy (
self-government) to a
subnational unit, and the articles usually mimic the form of a constitution, establishing the organization of the autonomous government, the electoral rules, the distribution of competences between different levels of governance and other regional-specific provisions, like the protection of cultural or lingual realities.