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The following conditions are required for the validity of first profession:

1. he who is about to make profession must have completed his eighteenth year;
2. that profession must take place after a validly completed one year of novitiate, unless, by dispensation of the prior provincial, it is anticipated. This, however, cannot be by more than fifteen days;
3. he must have the consent of the chapter and council of the novitiate convent;
4. the consent of the prior provincial, or of both priors provincial if the novice has been formed in another province.