1. The place and time of a chapter shall be determined by the preceding chapter. The date assigned for the beginning of a chapter shall not be postponed or anticipated by more than six months except with the consent of a majority of the provinces.
2. A general chapter shall be convoked by the Master or vicar of the Order by circular letter eight months before the date assigned for holding the chapter. Prayers for the successful outcome of the chapter shall be requested in this letter.
3. When the office of Master of the Order falls vacant, an elective chapter shall be convoked within a month from the date of the vacancy. This time may be extended – but not beyond six months – if there is a grave reason and a majority of  the provinces consent.
4. With the consent of his council, the Master or vicar of the Order may, for a just cause, change the designated location for the next general chapter.

Whenever in letters or rescripts of the Master of the Order the term, by the authority of our office or some other phrase equivalent to it is used, it is to be understood to embrace both ordinary authority and any other kind of authority delegated to his office.

1. Conferences of priors provincial and regional priors as well as vicars shall be established according to nations or regions so that fraternal collaboration is truly organized and has a permanent character. These conferences shall meet regularly according to norms drawn up by the members of the entities and approved by the Master of the Order.
2. To foster these mutual relationships, the socii of the Master of the Order shall visit these regions frequently and remain there for some time. At an opportune time, they shall inform the Master of the Order and the general chapter about the activities and progress made there.

Brothers belonging to different provinces who work in a region where no province has been established, should seek to exercise their apostolic ministry collaboratively, and, if possible, under unified direction according to norms established by agreement between the provinces concerned. This way the work of evangelization will be exercised more fully and the foundation of a new province be gradually prepared. These norms shall be reviewed and evaluated every fourth year by those to whom they pertain so that they might be updated.

1. Where a province or vice-province has already been established and members of other provinces are sent there to exercise the apostolic ministry, their work must be regulated in collaboration with the province or vice-province of that territory; so that, united in the same spirit and the same life, they may cooperate effectively and have a coordinated apostolate in that territory, and so, mindful of the common good, they may promote the Order’s progress in that region.
2. To foster this cooperation, suitable norms shall be drawn up in writing between the province of the place and the province which has brothers ministering in those territories. These norms must have the consent of the chapter or council of each province and must be approved by the Master of the Order. They shall be reviewed and evaluated every fourth year by those involved so that they may be updated to meet the pastoral needs of the local Church.

If it happens that the provincial chapters of a region are held at the same time, their diffinitories may have a joint meeting for some days to promulgate common admonitions, declarations, or ordinations.

1. So that the Order’s apostolate in the service of the Church may be exercised more effectively, the provinces which are in the same region or country should help each other, especially those which are in the territory of the same episcopal conference. Not only should they be united in a bond of fraternal charity and help each other occasionally, they should also, as far as possible, cooperate regularly according to mutually agreed norms.
2. The same must be said about houses or convents under the immediate jurisdiction of the Master of the Order so that there may be effective collaboration between all entities of the Order in any one place.

All the brothers, especially those living outside their convent, shall gather periodically to discuss the apostolic and regular life and, if the occasion presents itself, to formulate specific proposals for a future provincial chapter.

1. In every vicariate there shall be a council whose consent or advice the regional prior vicar provincial must seek on important transactions according to the norm of vicariate statutes. The acts of this council after being collected are to be sent to the prior provincial. 
2. The number of these councillors and the manner of their election or appointment shall be determined by the vicariate statute.
3. When Since in accordance with the prescriptions of the Book of Constitutions and Ordinations or the statute of the province or vicariate, the prior provincial, with his provincial council, has to deal with matters which concern the vicariate, he must first also consult the vicariate council before consulting the provincial council. When however it is a question of confirming, appointing, or removing the regional prior vicar provincial, he consults only the provincial council (see n. 373, 1).

The statutes of the vicariate ought to determine the norms

1. on the celebration of the chapter of the vicariate;
2. on the office of the Vicar provincial who presides over the vicariate as vicar of the Prior Provincial;
3. on the officials of the Vicariate;
4. on the formation and promotion of vocations;
5. on the right to participate ex officio in the provincial
   council and Provincial Chapter (cf. 352 § I, 1°), with active voice or not;
6. on the faculties which the Vicar of the Prior Provincial, having heard his council, is able to grant, on the admission of candidates to the novitiate and to simple profession, on the assignment of brothers to a house and convent of the vicariate, on the confirmation of conventual priors and the appointment of superiors of houses.