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The statute of the province determines:

1. whether to have preparatory commissions; 
2. the day on which the election of the prior provincial and the diffinitors of the chapter shall be held;
3. how many diffinitors of the chapter are to be elected, namely, four, six, or eight;
4. whether councillors of the province are to be elected, how many of them and when;
5. the day on which the elections for the general chapter shall be held.