The following are assembled and have votes in a general chapter of diffinitors:

1. the Master of the Order;
2. ex-Masters of the Order;
3. diffinitors elected by each province;
4. delegates elected by each vice-province and general vicariate;
   5. delegates of other vicariates, chosen in accordance with n. 409-bis, but excluding regional priors and vicars provincial;
   6. one delegate from among the brothers assigned to houses under the immediate jurisdiction of the Master of the Order if the total is less than one hundred, two if the total is one hundred or more, elected in accordance with n. 409-ter.

The following are assembled and have votes in a general chapter of diffinitors:

1. the Master of the Order;
2. ex-Masters of the Order;
3. diffinitors elected by each province;
4. delegates elected by each vice-province and general vicariate;
5. delegates of other vicariates, chosen in accordance with n. 409-bis, but excluding regional priors and vicars provincial;
6. one delegate from among the brothers assigned to houses convents under the immediate jurisdiction of the Master of the Order if the total is less than one hundred, two if the total is one hundred or more, elected in accordance with n. 409-ter.

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;
   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 twenty-five 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 between 101 and 200 brothers assigned in vicariates, a second delegate shall be elected, and so on.
   8. from among brothers directly assigned to houses un­der the immediate jurisdiction of the Master of the Order, two delegates if they total fewer than one hundred, three delegates if they total one hundred or more, chosen as laid down in n. 407-bis.
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. all those mentioned in § I, 2-8;

The vocals of the provincial chapter are:

1.  
   1. regional priors;
   2. vicars provincial elected in accordance with n. 389;
   3. conventual priors; if the prior cannot attend on account of sickness or another grave reason accepted by the prior provincial, the subprior may take his place;
   4. socii of priors going to the chapter, in accordance with n. 490;
   5. delegates of the brothers, in accordance with nn. 497-501;
   6. a delegate of a non-priorial house with at least four brothers enjoying active voice in the territory of each nation where there is no other house of the same province.
   7. 6. a prior provincial who immediately before the chapter completed his term of office in that province.
2. If the vocals at a provincial chapter, elected in accordance with the constitutions, are fewer than twenty, the statute of the province may make provision for extra voters. It is obliged to do this if there are fewer than ten voters. These, of whom there may not be more than three, are to be constituted such by election and not by personal entitlement.
3. If it has been determined in the statute of the province, a non-priorial house can send one delegate to the provincial chapter, in the manner of a convent, when that house is erected in a foreign nation where no other presence of the same province exists.

Those brothers who have passed the Order’s examination for hearing confessions, by the fact of having a document of approval signed by the examiners, have delegated jurisdiction over those persons subject to the Order, except the nuns, and over those others who live day and night in our houses. (CCL 967-969).

1. To be promoted a master in sacred theology, it is required that a brother:
   1. be commendable for his life and prudence;
   2. have been totally dedicated to intellectual work for at least ten years from the completion of his complementary studies;
   3. be presented to the provincial chapter by the commission for the intellectual life of the province of affiliation or of assignation of the brother, and be approved by two thirds of the vocals at the same chapter, or by the chapter of the province of affiliation according to the same manner of proceeding, or by the Master of the Order, if the brother is living in a convent or institute immediately subject to him;
   4. that a commission of at least three experts in the field of scientific specialisation, chosen by the Master of the Order, pronounce favourably on the value of his work and his capac­ity to pursue it;
   5. that he be promoted by a general chapter, or by the Master of the Order with his council;
   6. that the newly promoted master give a public lecture.
2. Nobody is to be promoted a master in sacred theology except in the aforesaid manner. 

1. To be promoted a master in sacred theology, it is required that a brother:
   1. be commendable for his life and prudence;
   2. have been totally dedicated to intellectual work for at least ten years from the completion of his complementary studies;
   3. be presented to the provincial chapter by the commission for the intellectual life of the province, and be approved by two thirds of the voters at the same chapter, or by the chapter of the province of affiliation or by the Master of the Order, if the brother is living in a convent or institute immediately subject to him;
   4. that a commission of at least three experts in the field of scientific specialisation, chosen by the Master of the Order, pronounce favourably on the value of his work and his capac­ity to pursue it;
   5. that he be promoted by a general chapter, or by the Master of the Order with his council;
   6. that the newly promoted master give a public lecture.
2. Nobody is to be promoted a master in sacred theology except in the aforesaid manner. 

The mastership in sacred theology is conferred on those brothers who are considered eminent in promoting the sciences, especially the sacred sciences. Excellence of this kind is established by an ability to develop and sustain doctrinal reflection and research, as well as by the publication of works of exceptional value; it is also established by an authority in the scientific field already acquired, even outside the Order.

A brother always needs the permission of a competent superior to travel.

1. Each year the prior provincial, prior vice-provincial and vicar general shall send their financial reports directly to the Master of the Order. Each year, the Prior Provincial shall send a report to the Master of the Order drawn up by the Syndic of the same Province in the same way set down in No. 566 above, and already approved by the Provincial Council.
2. Furthermore, each year the prior provincial, prior vice-provincial, and vicar general shall send  their economic reports directly to the Master of the Order.