Chapter I: Of the Minister of Confirmation

§ 1. The ordinary minister of confirmation is only a Bishop.

§ 2. The extraordinary minister is a presbyter to whom this faculty has been granted either by common law or by a peculiar indult of the Apostolic See.

§ 3. Besides Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church according to the norm of can. 239, Sec. 1, n. 23, an Abbot or Prelate nullius, Vicar and Prefect Apostolic enjoy this faculty by the law itself; nevertheless they cannot validly use it except within the boundaries of their territory and only while their office endures.

§ 4. A presbyter of the Latin rite to whom, by force of indult, this faculty belongs validly confers confirmation only on faithful of his own rite, unless something else has expressly been provided in the indult.

§ 5. It is unlawful for presbyters of an Eastern rite, who enjoy the faculty or privilege of conferring confirmation together with baptism on infants of their own rite, to administer the same to infants of the Latin rite.

§ 1. A Bishop legitimately administers this sacrament in his own diocese even to outsiders, unless the express prohibition of their own Ordinary obstructs.

§ 2. In another diocese he needs the permission of the local Ordinary, at least reasonably presumed, unless there is question of his own subjects to whom he confers confirmation privately and without crozier and miter.

It is also lawful for a presbyter, if he is fortified by an apostolic local privilege, to confirm in the territory designated to him even outsiders, unless their Ordinaries have expressly forbidden this.

§ 1. A Bishop is bound by the obligation of conferring this sacrament on subjects duly and reasonably seeking it, especially at the time of visitation of the diocese.

§ 2. A presbyter given an apostolic privilege is held by the same obligation toward those in whose favor the faculty has been granted.

§ 3. An Ordinary, impeded by a legitimate cause or lacking the power of confirming, must, insofar as it can be done, provide at least within each five-year period that this sacrament be administered to his subjects.

§ 4. If he has gravely neglected to administer the Sacrament of confirmation to his subjects by himself or through another, the prescription of can. 274, n. 4 is to be observed.