1. Collaboration between provinces working in the same region should be fostered to bring about a more effective and complete missionary endeavour.
2. All provinces ought to collaborate in the missionary work of the Order by offering brothers suited to appropriate undertakings.
3. In administering the affairs of the missions, the Master of the Order is to be helped by the socius for the apostolate.

It is for the council:

1. to consent to the appointment or removal of the syndic;
2. to vote, as required in nn. 192, 197, 202, 206, and 207, for the admission of brothers to profession;
3. to dismiss a postulant or a novice when the matter is urgent; 
4. to grant to those about to sit for an examination or to receive orders the approval concerning their behaviour required by our legislation;
5. to approve the report of the syndic and of other administrators and to decide all other matters concerning economic administration, in accordance with nn. 563, § I, 568;
6. to decide on all matters left to the examination and decision of the council by a provincial chapter.

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   1. The Master of the Order, with the consent of his council, may establish a vice-province. It ought to have, in the territory assigned to it, two convents properly so called and twenty-five voters; furthermore, it should be able to provide from its own resources so that it may have the conditions for the stability of the new province to be established.
   2. A vice-provincial presides as major superior over a vice-province; he is elected by the chapter of the vice-province. A vice-province has the obligations and rights of a province.
2. In a territory where there is no province or vice-province, and where there are local needs or a well-founded hope of making a permanent foundation of the Order, the Master of the Order may, with the consent of his council, erect a general vicariate with specific territory. He must first have consulted the brothers due to be assigned to the vicariate and the council of the relevant province. The statues by which the general vicariate is governed shall be prepared by the vicariate and approved by the Master of the Order and his council.
   In this case, after the brothers of the vicariate have been consulted, a vicar general is appointed, in the first instance, by the Master of the Order for four years.
   Relations between this general vicariate and other vicariates which may exist in the same place shall be determined according to n. 395.

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   1. The Master of the Order, with the consent of his council, may establish a vice-province. It ought to have, in the territory assigned to it, two convents properly so called and twenty-five voters, two thirds of whom should be members of the vice-province; furthermore, it should be able to provide from its own resources so that it may have the conditions for the stability of the new province to be established.
   2. A vice-provincial presides as major superior over a vice-province; he is elected by the chapter of the vice-province. A vice-province has the obligations and rights of a province.
2. In a territory where there is no province or vice-province, and where there are local needs or a well-founded hope of making a permanent foundation of the Order, the Master of the Order may, with the consent of his council, erect a general vicariate with specific territory. He must first have consulted the brothers due to be assigned to the vicariate and the council of the relevant province. The statues by which the general vicariate is governed shall be prepared by the vicariate and approved by the Master of the Order and his council.
   In this case, after the brothers of the vicariate have been consulted, a vicar general is appointed, in the first instance, by the Master of the Order for four years.
   Relations between this general vicariate and other vicariates which may exist in the same place shall be determined according to n. 395. 

1. During the two months preceding simple profession and the six months prior to solemn profession, a brother shall be examined, and the declarations contained in the appendix shall be made to him. (see Appendix n. 5).
2. As to the subject matter of the examination, he should be questioned about the obligations of our profession as well as the human and spiritual motives drawing him to consecrate his life to God through profession in the Order.
3. With the exceptions mentioned in n. 207, the convent where the brother made his novitiate, or where he is actually assigned, has the right to conduct the examination. The examiners are the brothers designated by the prior provincial, or by the prior with his council. The examination, however, may take place outside the convent of novitiate or of assignation.

The election of a conventual prior must be confirmed by the prior provincial, or by the regional prior if it concerns a brother assigned to a regional vicariate convent of the regional vicariate and elected for a convent in that vicariate, unless the statute of the vicariate provides otherwise. (see Appendix, n. 20).

The election of a conventual prior must be confirmed by the prior provincial, or by the regional prior if it concerns a brother assigned to a regional vicariate and elected for a convent in that vicariate, unless the statute of the vicariate provides otherwise. (see Appendix, n. 20).

1. Entities of the Order are to define in their chapter legislation and/or statutes the proper procedures for financial operations (administration, safe keeping of valuables and negotiables, investments and banking) in a manner suitable to their local conditions (K, n. 384).
2. Only in banks of assured security may money be deposited and, in accordance with n. 555, it must be deposited in the name of the respective moral person or institute to which it belongs.
3. The bank must be chosen by the administrator him self with the consent of the superior.

1. Entities of the Order are to define in their chapter legislation and/or statutes the proper procedures for financial operations (administration, safe keeping of valuables and negotiables, investments and banking) in a manner suitable to their local conditions (K, n. 384).
2. Only in banks of assured security may money be deposited and, in accordance with n. 555, it must be deposited in the name of the respective moral person or institute to which it belongs.
3. The bank must be chosen by the administrator him self with the consent of the superior. To be determined by the statute of administration:
   1. how money deposited into banks may be withdrawn: money deposited in banks may be withdrawn only by checks signed at least by the superior and the administrator, together or separately, in accordance with the statute of administration.
   2. which brothers or administrators, jointly or singly, may sign.

1. Without prejudice to n. 491, § II, and with the exception of those who in accordance with n. 352, § I and § III are already represented, the following elect a delegate to a provincial chapter, provided they enjoy active voice (see nn. 440 and 441):
   1. brothers directly assigned to houses of the province;
   2. unless the provincial statute stipulate otherwise, brothers directly assigned to houses or convents under the immediate jurisdiction of the Master of the Order, always excepting those who belong to the general council;
   3. brothers indirectly assigned outside the province, pro­vided they are not superiors;
   4. brothers assigned to convents for which an agreement has been reached in accordance with n. 391, 4 and 5, provided that they are not conventual priors.
2. Given the requirements of n. 490, § I concerning the number of voters required for the election of the socius of a prior, other voters living outside the convent who for a grave reason cannot participate in the election of the socius in the convent of their assignation (see n. 491) shall be joined to a specified electoral college by the prior provincial with his council.
3. Given the requirements of n. 443, § I, all the brothers who have active voice in the election of a delegate are also eligible from the same college to which they belong.