§2. If it seems necessary the chancellor can be given an assistant whose title is vice-chancellor.
§3. The chancellor as well as the vice-chancellor are by the law itself notaries of the eparchial curia.
In the 1983 Code of Canon Law for the Latin rite of the Catholic Church, the chancellor may be a layperson, and not necessarily a presbyter or deacon. The office of the Chancellor is mandatory in all diocessan (eparchial) curia. The primary function of the Chancellor is to keep the curial records properly. Beal, New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law, Paulist Press, Mahwah, New Jersey, 2000, p.635.
