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- In every province there shall be a regent of studies who, under the authority of the prior provincial and with the advice of the commission for the intellectual life of the province, according to the statute of the province, shall:
1. promote and coordinate, as head of the province’s commission for the intellectual life, the entire intellectual life of the province;
2. take care especially of the province’s centre of institutional studies, and see to it that the Ratio Studiorum of the province and other legislation of the Order is observed;
3. collaborate in implementing the programme for ongoing formation drawn up by the commission for the intellectual life of the province;
4. collaborate with the conventual lectors in the promotion of study in the province’s convents;
5. assist other centres of studies in the province, according to their proper statutes, and foster collaboration among them and with the centre of institutional studies of the province;
6. help the prior provincial in solving doctrinal questions;
7. see to the planning of the province’s intellectual life and the preparation of specialists required by the province and the Order’s centres of study;
8. present an annual report to the Master of the Order. - The following requirements are needed for nomination as regent:
1. an academic title such as is required of professors in centres of higher studies;
2. some experience of teaching, especially in theology or philosophy;
3. being known for his dedication to study and doctrine. The regent is proposed by the provincial chapter and appointed by the Master of the Order for a four year term until the following chapter. He may be proposed for a second term immediately, but not for a third.
As regent he:
1. is a member ex officio of the provincial council;
2. is ex officio head of the commission on the intellectual life;
3. is allocated a financial subsidy in the budget of the province;
4. cannot be nominated to any office that would interfere with the discharge of his duties.