Anointing of The Sick
Every priest can administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick validly. While the duty and right to administer it pertains to the priest to whom the spiritual care of the person concerned is entrusted, any other priest may, for a reasonable cause administer it instead, provided he has the presumed consent of the priest who has the duty and right. Without that presumed consent, he is in the same position as a priest who has been laicized or suspended or excommunicated and whose administration of the sacrament, though valid, is illicit.
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