1. A province consists of a least three convents, two of which must contain at least ten voters. Furthermore, each province must have at least forty voters.
2. A province must have its own territory distinct from the territory of other provinces.

1. In every province, there is to be a promoter of ongoing formation under the authority of the prior provincial. His duties are as follows:
   1. to draw up yearly programmes of ongoing formation with the assistance of the province’s commission for the intellectual life;
   2. to coordinate such programmes at provincial, convent and house level at least once a year with priors, conventual lectors and superiors; the regent is to be consulted when studies are
      under discussion;
   3. to enter into communication with other centres and institutions of ongoing formation and also with experts in the field.
2. The provincial promoter of ongoing formation is appointed by the provincial chapter for a four year term. During his tenure:
   1. he is moderator of the province’s centre for ongoing formation, with due regard for n. 92-bis, § I;
   2. he is a member of the commission for the intellectual life of the province;
   3. he is provided with a financial subsidy in the province’s annual budget

Ongoing formation has to do with brothers’ renewal and development in keeping with the different stages of their life’s journey, so that they are increasingly prepared to adapt their preaching of the Word of God to people today who are preoccupied with contemporary concerns.
  Within the province, the task of ongoing formation is the responsibility of the prior provincial assisted by the provincial promoter of ongoing formation. In the convent, the task falls to the prior, assisted by the conventual lector, and to the conventual chapter. In a house, the superior is responsible..

1. After the council’s approval, and the examination for the particular order has been carried out by those appointed by the provincial chapter, the major superior shall prepare dimissorial letters to be sent to the diocesan bishop in accordance with law (see appendix n. 10).
2. The prior provincial may grant dimissorial letters only to members of his own province, or, with the consent of the prior provincial of their province of affiliation, to brothers assigned in his province.

Only those brothers may be promoted to orders who:

1. are solemnly professed; 
2. have the necessary qualities;
3. are presented by their own major superior;
4. are approved by the conventual council whose responsibility it is to ensure that they have the requirements for ordination (cf. CIC 1029 & 1051).

The curriculum of institutional studies includes philosophical and theological disciplines and pastoral formation.

1. A centre of institutional studies is governed by a group of professors under the presidency of a moderator. The duty of this group is to promote everything that pertains to study, always bearing in mind the integral formation of the brothers. It is the task of Rationes Studiorum Particulares to determine which teachers fully belong to the faculty, and how students are to participate in it.
2. This centre’s moderatorship is subject to the prior provincial in discharging its responsibilities. It is subject to the conventual prior in all that concerns the religious life and government
   of the community.
3. Professors and students should willingly work together under the authority of the moderatorship to promote study.

The moderatorship of the centre of institutional studies shall be appointed according to the centre’s own statute, observing n. 92-bis, § I.

In the government of the house of studies, the prior shall ensure that the conditions are favourable for the intellectual formation of the students; and he shall respect the freedom of the brothers entrusted with formation within the limits of each one’s tasks.

Cooperation in institutional studies within the Order can be done:

1. by setting up in a particular nation or region, with due regard for n. 233, an interprovincial centre of institutional studies with its own particular statute, in which the entire curriculum according to the Ratio Studiorum Generalis of the Order can be provided for brothers of several provinces;
2. by providing in one province’s centre part of the curriculum (for example, the philosophical formation for students of two or more provinces) and another part in some other province’s centre. Such collaboration is governed according to a particular statute agreed between the provinces;
3. by offering to those provinces which send students to another province’s centre some sharing, at least consultative, in the government of that centre;
4. by sending students to the Order’s centres of higher studies, especially international centres, with due regard for n. 233.