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is represented by an agent, the said affidavit shall be sworn by such agent and shall, besides stating that, to the best of the deponent's knowledge, information, and belief, the allegations contained in the petition are true, show how the deponent obtained his instructions and the information enabling him to present the petition.
revivor or
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51. A petition for an order of revivor or substitution shall be accompanied by a certificate or duly authenticated statement from the Court appealed from showing who, in the opinion of the said Court, is the proper person to be substituted, or entered, on the record in place of, or in addition to, a party who has died or undergone a change of status.
scandalous
52. The Registrar of the Privy Council may refuse to receive a petition on the ground that it contains scandalous matter, but the petitioner may appeal, by way of motion, from such refusal to the Judicial Committee.
refused.
53. As soon as a petition is ready for hearing, the petitioner shall forthwith notify the Registrar of the Privy Council to that effect, and the petition shall thereupon be deemed to be set down.
which set-
54. On each day appointed by the Judicial Committee for the hearing of petitions the Registrar of the Privy Council shall, unless the Committee otherwise direct, put in the paper for hearing all such petitions as have been set down: Provided that, in the absence of special circumstances of urgency to be shown to the satisfaction of the said Registrar, no petition, if unopposed, shall be so put in the paper before the expiration of 3 clear days from the lodging thereof, or, if opposed, before the expiration of 10 clear days from the lodging thereof unless, in the latter case, the opponent consents to the petition being put in the paper on an earlier day not being less than 3 clear days from the lodging thereof.
heard,
55. Subject to the provisions of the next following rule, the Registrar of the Privy Council shall, as soon as the Judicial Committee have appointed a day for the hearing of a petition, notify all parties concerned by summons of the day so appointed.
tion is con-
is formal.
56. Where the prayer of the petition is of a formal and non-contentious character, the Judicial Committee may, if they think fit, make their report to His Majesty on such petition, or make their order thereon, as the case may be, without requiring the attendance of the parties in the Council Chamber, and the Registrar of the Privy Council shall not in any such case issue the summons provided for by the last-preceding rule, but shall with all convenient speed after the Committee
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