Clause 16

A copy each of every petition and affidavit required to be filed under the provisions of section 14, 15 or 25 of this Act together with true copies of each document exhibited thereto shall within five days of the document being filed in the Registrar’s office be served on the Attorney-General, the Board and the Society.

If the Attorney-General, the Board or the Society intend to object to any petition there shall be served on the petitioner not less than three clear days or such shorter period as the court may allow a notice of objection in which shall be set out in brief terms the grounds of objection.

Any such notice of objection shall be filed in the Registrar’s office at any time before the day fixed for the hearing of the petition.

It shall not be necessary for the Attorney-General, the Board or the Society to be represented at the hearing of any petition unless the Attorney-General, the Board or the Society, as the case may be, intend to object to that petition.