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  1. If any Province or Vice Province for a period of three years to the norm of n. 253 or n. 257 § I does not fulfill the conditions requisite, the General Chapter or Master of the Order consulting with his council may declare it hardly large enough to enjoy the rights of the Province or Vice Province, saving always the right to participate in a General Chapter already convoked. If, for a period of three years, a province does not have three convents or thirty-five voters assigned in that province and habitually living there, the Master of the Order, having consulted his council, shall declare that it no longer enjoys the right to take part in general chapters as a province and shall reduce it to a vice-province in accordance with n. 257, unless a general chapter has already been convoked.
  2. This declaration having been published, if the Province fulfills the requisite conditions by the norm of n. 257 § I, it would enjoy the rights and is bound to the obligations of a Vice Province. Otherwise the Master of the Order in and over this Province or Vice Province msy institute a vicar (cf. n. 400) for four years, who would have all the requisite conditions for a Prior Provincial, and rules this entity according to the norms established by the Master of the Order. This declaration having been published, if the Province fulfills the requisite conditions by the norm of n. 257 § I, it would enjoy the rights and is bound to the obligations of a Vice Province. Otherwise the Master of the Order in and over this Province or Vice Province msy institute a vicar (cf. n. 400) for four years, who would have all the requisite conditions for a Prior Provincial, and rules this entity according to the norms established by the Master of the Order.
  3. If afterwards the Province or Vice Province about which in § I fulfills the requisite conditions by the norm of n. 257 § I, the General Chapter or Master of the Order with the consent of his council may declare it to enjoy the rights of a Vice Province and to be bound to its obligations.
  4. In regions where, because of adverse circumstances, a provincial chapter cannot be held, the Master of the Order, with the consent of his council, may provide for its equitable representation at the general chapter.
Constitution
Inchoata cum ordinatione ACG 2013 Traugurii n. 222
Adprobata cum ordinatione ACG 2016 Bologna n. 273
Confirmata ACG 2019 Biên Hòa n. 396
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258

  1. If, for a period of three years, a province does not have three convents or thirty-five voters assigned in that province and habitually living there, the Master of the Order, having consulted his council, shall declare that it no longer enjoys the right to take part in general chapters as a province and shall reduce it to a vice-province or general vicariate in accordance with n. 257, unless a general chapter has already been convoked.
  2. When a province which had been reduced to a vice-province as provided for in § I, shall once again, for a period of three years, have the necessary conditions, the Master of the Order must declare that it enjoys all its rights as a province.
  3. In regions where, because of adverse circumstances, a provincial chapter cannot be held, the Master of the Order, with the consent of his council, may provide for its equitable representation at the general chapter.
Constitution
Adprobata ACG 2010 Romæ n. 269
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258

  1. If, for a period of three years, a province does not have three convents or thirty-five voters assigned in that province and habitually living there, the Master of the Order, having consulted his council, shall declare that it no longer enjoys the right to take part in general chapters as a province and shall reduce it to a vice-province or general vicariate in accordance with n. 257, unless a general chapter has already been convoked.
  2. When a province which had been reduced to a viceprovince as provided for in § I, shall once again, for a period of three years, have the necessary conditions, the Master of the Order must declare that it enjoys all its rights as a province.
  3. In regions where, because of adverse circumstances, a provincial chapter cannot be held, the Master of the Order, with the consent of his council, may provide for its equitable representation at the general chapter.
Constitution
Confirmed ACG 1968 River Forest n.
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