Article II: Of Auditors and Relators

§ 1. The Ordinary can constitute one or more auditors, or instructors of the acts, either stably or for some certain cause.

§ 2. The judge can choose an auditor only for the cause which he is hearing, unless the Ordinary has already provided.

Auditors for the diocesan tribunal, insofar as can be done, are to be chosen from the synodal judges; for the tribunal of religious, however, they must always be chosen from members of the same religion according to the norm of the constitutions.

It belongs to them to cite and hear witnesses and to instruct other judicial acts according to the tenor of the mandate, but not to render a definitive sentence.

An auditor can be removed from office at any moment of the litigation by him who chose him, yet for a just cause and without prejudice to the parties.

The president of a collegial tribunal must designate one of the judges of the college as ponens or relator, who is to report on the cause in the meeting of judges and reduce the sentences to writing; and the same president can substitute another for him from a just cause.