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The Petitioner shall serve copies of his Petition on all parties entering Caveats in accordance with this Rule and no application to fix a time for hearing shall be made without affidavit of such service.
All parties intending to oppose a Petition shall within three weeks after such copies are served on them respectively lodge at the Council Office eight printed copies of the grounds of their objections to the granting of the prayer of the Petition.
V.
Parties shall be entitled to have copies of all papers lodged in respect of any Petition under Section 25 of the Act at their own expense .
All such Petitions and all statements of grounds of objection shall be printed in the form prescribed by the rules which apply to proceedings before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Balance sheets of expenditure and receipts shall be printed in a form convenient for binding along with such Petitions.
VI.
Costs incurred in the matter of any Petition under Section 25 of the Act shall be taxed by the Registrar of the Privy Council , or other officer deputed by the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to tax the costs in the matter of any Petition, and the Registrar or such other officer shall have authority to allow or disallow in his discretion all payments made to persons of science or skill examined as Witnesses .
VII.
The Lords of the Committee may excuse Petitioners and Opponents from compliance with any of the requirements of these Rules, and may give such directions in matters of procedure and practice under Section 25 of the Act as they shall consider to be just and expedient.
VIII.
The Lords of the Committee will hear the Attorney- General or other Counsel on behalf of the Crown on the question of granting the prayer of any Petition under Section 25 of the Act. The Attorney-General is not required to give notice of the grounds of any objection he may think fit to take or of any evidence which he may think fit to place before the Lords of the Committee.