Decree 52: Completing the Work on the Formulas of the Congregation, General Congregation 31 (1966)

With respect to the Formulas of congregations, the 31st General Congregation:

1° Orders and empowers Father General, with a deliberative vote of those fathers of the general curia who have a right to attend a general congregation by reason of their office:

a. to give an authoritative answer to questions that will of necessity arise concerning the next province congregations and congregations of procurators and of provincials by adapting the Formulas of these congregations and, where necessary, even changing them;

b. either to give provisional answers to juridical questions respecting the next general congregation and its Formula, or prepare the questions in such a way that the 32nd General Congregation can itself settle them at its outset.

2° Recommends also to the General that he communicate to the fathers of the 32nd General Congregation, in good time before the start of the congregation, the decisions so made and the questions to be settled.