Chapter III: Of the Notary, Chancellor, and Advocates

§ 1. A notary or actuary must assist at processes, whether apostolic or to be instructed by the local Ordinary by his own right.

§ 2. The notary before the Sacred Congregation must be from the number of participating Protonotaries.

Religious cannot validly discharge the office of notary, except from necessity; but in causes of their own religion they are always excluded.

In processes instructed by the local Ordinary outside the City, the notary himself of the Curia can discharge the office of notary; in the City the Protonotary of the Sacred Congregation is to discharge the office of notary, and, he being absent, the notary of the Vicariate of the City.

An assistant or, as they say, adjunct can be given to the notary, who may furnish him help in comparing transcripts with the original acts, and copies with documents which are transcribed from autographs preserved in libraries, archives, etc.

The adjunct notary and the chancellor of the Sacred Congregation must be priests, of whole reputation and above every exception; but the chancellor is moreover to be furnished with a degree in canon law.

Advocates and procurators in causes of beatification and canonization before the Sacred Congregation must be possessed of a degree in canon law and at least a licentiate in sacred theology, and they must have made a traineeship with some one of the advocates of the same Sacred Congregation or with the Sub-promoter General of the Faith himself; for advocates moreover a legitimate title of rotal advocate is required.