Without prejudice to n. 443, for a person to be elected validly as regional priorvicar provincial, it is required that:
he be thirty years old and ten years from first profession;
he has not been regional priorvicar provincial in the same regionvicariate for the two four-year terms commissions immediately preceding.
If any brother cannot be elected because of the lack of one or more of the conditions mentioned in § I, 1 and 2, the brothers may postulate him to the prior provincial who may dispense from the interstices and make provision according to n. 467.