‘Please, venerables, I ask the Sangha to listen. There’s an unfinished discussion about so-and-so renouncing the training. The case hasn’t been decided. If the Sangha is ready, it should decide it.’ If this works out, all is well. If not, then on the observance day, whether the fourteenth or the fifteenth, in the midst of the Sangha and in the presence of that person, a monk should announce: ‘Please, venerables, I ask the Sangha to listen. There’s an unfinished discussion about so-and-so renouncing the training. The case hasn’t been decided. I cancel his hearing of the Monastic Code. The Monastic Code shouldn’t be recited in his presence.’ This cancellation of the Monastic Code is legitimate.” One who reopens a legitimate legal procedure