Inchoata cum ordinatione ACG 1983 Rome n. 368

The following assemble and have votes in a general elective chapter: 

1. In the election of a Master of the Order:
   1. ex-Masters of the Order;
   2. all priors provincial;
   3. from each province, the diffinitor of the general chap­ter, without prejudice to n. 258;
   4. vice-provincials and vicars general, as provided for in n. 257, § II;
   5. a socius of the diffinitor of a general chapter from each province which has at least one hundred professed religious, excluding, however, those who are assigned in vicariates and those directly assigned to houses under the immediate jurisdiction of the Master of the Order;
   6. a socius of the prior provincial attending a general chapter from each province which has at least four hundred professed religious, excluding, however, those who are assigned in vicariates, and those directly assigned to houses under the immediate jurisdiction of the Master of the Order;
   7. a delegate from each province which has between ten and one hundred brothers assigned in vicariates or houses of the province outside the boundaries of the province, the del­egate shall be elected from among the brothers and by them according to the provincial statute; furthermore, from each province which has more than one hundred between 101 and 200 brothers assigned in vicariates, a second delegate shall be elected, and so on.
2. In matters to be dealt with after the election of the Master:
   1. the newly elected Master of the Order;
   2. ex-Masters of the Order;
   3. each Prior Provincial;
   4. diffinitors of the General Chapters;
   5. Vice-provincials and Vicars General;
   6. Socii of Priors Provincial and Diffinitors and delegates of the brethren from Vicariates that have taken part in the election.
      III. The socii of the prior provincials and diffinitors, and the delegates of the brothers from the vicariates who have elected them, have the right to speak but not to decide in matters to be decided.