Section 16

If the Attorney General, the Bar Council or any State Bar

Committee intends to object to any petition, there shall be served on the petitioner and filed in the Registrar’s Office, not less than three clear days or any shorter period as the Court may allow before the date fixed for hearing the petition, a notice of objection which shall set out in brief terms the grounds of objection.

On a notice of objection being filed the petition shall be fixed for hearing within one month or as soon as may be before a Judge of the High Court.

The Attorney General, the Bar Council or the State Committee need not be represented at the hearing of any petition unless the

Attorney General, the Bar Council or the State Bar Committee, as the case may be, intends to object to that petition, but no order shall be made upon any petition unless the Court is satisfied that the petition, affidavit and true copies of each document have been duly served as required by subsection (1).

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