Section 6
Service of documents and objections
(1)
A copy each of every petition and affidavit required to be filed under the provisions of section 5 together with true copies of each document exhibited thereto shall, within 5 days of the documents being filed in the
Chief Registrar’s office, be served on the Attorney General, Society and upon such other persons as may be prescribed.
(2)
If the Attorney General, Society or any other person served with the application intends to object to any petition there shall be served on the petitioner, not less than 3 clear days before the day fixed for the hearing of the petition, or such shorter period as the Chief Justice may allow, a notice of objection in which shall be set out in brief terms the grounds of objection.
(3)
Any such notice of objection shall be filed in the Chief
Registrar’s office at any time before the day fixed for the hearing of the petition.
(4)
It shall not be necessary for the Attorney General, Society or any other person served with the application to be represented at the hearing of any petition unless the Attorney General, Society or such other person intends to object to that petition.