[Rev. 2012]
Matrimonial Causes
CAP. 152
(6) Unless otherwise directed, a copy of the order made under this rule together
with a certified copy of the supplemental petition or of the amended petition shall be
served upon the respondent, co-respondent or person named therein, and, in the
case of a respondent, co-respondent or person not named in the original petition,
the supplemental petition or amended petition shall be endorsed with a notice to
appear in Form 3 or, as the case may be, with a notice in Form 11 in the Appendix,
and the provisions of rules 8, 9 and 10 of these Rules shall apply to supplemental
and amended petitions as they apply to original petitions.
15. Interveners
(1) Unless otherwise directed, where a husband is charged with adultery with
a named person who is not made a respondent under rule 5 of these Rules,
and where, in a husband’s petition for judicial separation, the wife is charged
with adultery and no damages are claimed, a certified copy of the petition or
answer containing such charge shall be personally served on the person with whom
adultery is alleged to have been committed, endorsed in lieu of a notice to appear
with a notice in accordance with Form 11 in the Appendix that such person is
entitled within the time limited thereby to apply for leave to intervene in the cause.
(2) Application for leave to intervene in any cause shall be supported by
affidavit, which shall be filed, and leave may be given with such directions as to
appearance and procedure as the Judge shall think fit.
(3) Unless otherwise directed, a party intervening shall join in the proceedings
at the stage which those proceedings have reached at the time leave to intervene
is given, and the name of that party shall appear in the title to the cause from the
day on which he enters an appearance.
16. Answer
A respondent, co-respondent or person named who has entered in appearance
to a petition may within fourteen days after the expiration of the time allowed for
the entry of such appearance file an answer to the petition.
17. Evidence in support of and service of answer
(1) There shall be filed with every answer which contains matter other than a
simple denial of the fact stated in the petition an affidavit by the person filing the
answer verifying such other matter so far as he has personal cognizance thereof
and deposing to his belief in the truth of the rest of such other matter and, where that
person is husband or wife of the petitioner, deposing in so far as such other matter is
concerned to the existence or otherwise of collusion, connivance and condonation
in the manner required by rule 6 of these Rules in the case of a petition.
(2) Where the answer of a husband alleges adultery and prays for relief, the
alleged adulterer shall be added to the title of the cause as “A.B. cited”, and shall
be served personally with a certified copy of the answer endorsed with a notice to
appear as if it were a petition.
(3) Where the answer of a husband alleges adultery but does not pray for relief,
a certified copy of the answer shall be served personally on the alleged
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