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The vocals of the provincial chapter are:

  1.  
    1. regional priors;
    2. vicars provincial elected in accordance with n. 389;
    3. conventual priors;
    4. socii of priors going to the chapter, in accordance with n. 490;
    5. delegates of the brothers, in accordance with nn. 497-501;
    6. a prior provincial who immediately before the chapter completed his term of office in that province.
  2. If the vocals of the provincial chapter, elected in accordance with the constitutions, are fewer than twenty, the statute of the province may make provision for extra voters. It is obliged to do this if there are fewer than ten vocals. These, of whom there may not be more than three, are to be constituted such by election and not by personal entitlement. If the number of vocals of a provincial chapter according to the constitutions of the electors is less than ten, the statute of the province may provide for supplementary vocals to reach this number, provided, however, that these vocals are not constituted by personal right, but by election.
  3. If determined in the statute of the province, a non-priorial house can send one delegate to the provincial chapter, in the manner of a convent, when that house is erected in a foreign nation where no other Dominican presence exists.