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- To establish or to suppress a convent, legal provisions having been observed (see CCL. 609-612; 616), the following are required:
- a petition by the provincial chapter, setting out the reasons;
- approval by the Master of the Order;
- a decree by the Master of the Order, given in writing, for validity.
- If it is a question of transferring or re-establishing a convent in the same city, the decision of the prior provincial with the consent of his council suffices.
- A province is not permitted to establish a convent within the territory of another, except with the consent of the Master of the Order and of the council of the province in which it is proposed to make a foundation.
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