Canon 182. §1 The postulation must be sent, within eight canonical days, by the person who presides to the authority which is competent to confirm the election, to whom it belongs to grant the dispensation from the impediment or, if he has not this authority, to seek the dispensation from a superior authority. If confirmation is not required, the postulation must be sent to the authority which is competent to grant the dispensation.

§2 If the postulation is not forwarded within the prescribed time, it is by that very fact invalid, and the college or group is for that occasion deprived of the right of election or of postulation, unless it is proved that the person presiding was prevented by a just impediment from forwarding the postulation, or did not do so in due time because of deceit or negligence.

§3 The person postulated does not acquire any right from the postulation; the competent authority is not obliged to admit the postulation.

§4 The electors may not revoke a postulation made to the competent authority, except with the consent of that authority.

§1. Postulatio a praeside intra octiduum utile mitti debet ad auctoritatem competentem ad quam pertinet electionem confirmare, cuius est dispensationem de impedimento concedere, aut, si hanc potestatem non habeat, eandem ab auctoritate superiore petere; si non requiritur confirmatio, postulatio mitti debet ad auctoritatem competentem ut dispensatio concedatur.

§2. Si intra praescriptum tempus postulatio missa non fuerit, ipso facto nulla est, et collegium vel coetus pro ea vice privatur iure eligendi aut postulandi nisi probetur praesidem a mittenda postulatione iusto fuisse detentum impedimento aut dolo vel neglegentia ab eadem tempore opportuno mittenda abstinuisse.

§3. Postulato nullum ius acquiritur ex postulatione; eam admittendi auctoritas competens obligatione non tenetur.

§4. Factam auctoritati competenti postulationem electores revocare non possunt, nisi auctoritate consentiente.