Many of the norms of the 1983 Code of Canon Law mention the possibility of imposing on someone a provisional non-penal prohibition of the exercise his or her office, job, or sacred orders. In cases of this type it is possible to speak of a «non-penal suspension». The study provides a list of such norms and discusses the question of whether and how such a suspension may be imposed even outside of the specific cases that are mentioned in the norms.