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1. If the statute of the vicariate shall have determined that the vicar be designated by election, the president of the election is the brother who actually governs the vicariate in accordance with the norm of 385, § II, 2, or, if he is out of office, the senior in the Order among the superiors of that region of the statute of the vicariate or perhaps another friar appointed by the prior provincial.
2. After consulting the regional vicariate council, it is for him to determine the time of the election and to notify all the voters; he must do this within a month of knowing that the office is vacant.