Chapter IV: The Sanyasi Council
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- In each ministry a sanyasi council is to be established, that is, a group of sanyasis which, representing the sanyashood, is to be like a senate of the minister and which assists the minister in the governance of the ministry according to the norm of law to promote as much as possible the spiritual good of the portion of the citizens of Kailasa entrusted to him.
- In what pertains to the designation of members of the sanyas council: a. the sanyasis themselves are free to elect about half, according to the norm of the following canons and of the statutes; b. according to the norm of the statutes, some sanyasis must be ex officio members, that is, members who are to belong to the council by reason of the office entrusted to them; c. the minister is freely entitled to appoint others.
- The following have the right of election, both active and passive, in constituting a sanyas council: a. all initiates sanyasis in the ministry;
- It is for the minister to convene the sanyas council, preside over it, and determine the questions to be treated by it or receive proposals from the members. a. The sanyas council possesses only a consultative vote; the minister is to hear it in affairs of greater importance but needs its consent only in cases expressly defined by law. b. The sanyas council is not able to act without the minister who alone has charge of making public those things which have been established according to the norm above.
5. Members of the sanyas council are to be designated for a time determined in the statutes, in such a way, however, that the entire council or some part of it is renewed within five years.
6. From among the members of the sanyas council and in a number not less than six nor more than twelve, the minister freely appoints some sanyasis who are to constitute for five years a college of consultors, to which belongs the functions determined by law. When the five years elapse, however, it continues to exercise its proper functions until a new college is established.
a. The minister presides over the college of consultors. When a ministry is impeded or vacant, however, the one who temporarily takes the place of the minister or, if he has not yet been appointed, the sanyasi who is senior in ordination in the college of consultors presides.