Planning

1. It is difficult for individual convents or institutes to undertake major projects with their own unaided resources. In many cases the combined help of all the members and communities of a province is needed and planning is essential. Projects have to be undertaken in sequence, a sequence based on a priority of need and feasibility, so that all may help each other successively.
2. All this applies not only to once-off large-scale expenditure on the construction or restoration of buildings or the commencement of new works, but also to undertakings which require annual subsidies.

1. Planning must be undertaken by a provincial chapter after the economic council has voted on the matter.
2. When planning to meet the needs of a province or of one or other convent, the rights of convents to their property may be restricted, even to the extent of transfer or alienation of goods; but the chapters of the convents concerned must always be consulted beforehand.

When money is required for the commencement of a major project or for its continuation, the source of the requisite revenue must be clearly indicated when making the financial arrangements.

1. No building may be constructed unless the considered opinion of experts on the location and other essentials has already been obtained, nor before a plan of the whole building, together with an estimate of the cost, has been approved by the provincial council after consultation with the economic council. Furthermore, the building should be so constructed that its ordinary maintenance will not be excessively expensive.
2. Buildings must be constructed in conformity to what has been approved by the provincial council, and no one is permitted on his own authority to deviate from it.

What has been said about constructing buildings holds true also, with appropriate modifications, for restoration work and extensive repairs as well as for other matters of major importance.