PART 4COURT PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE

CHAPTER 2Making applications to court

Hearings and determination without notice4.10

1

Where the Act and these Rules do not require service of a sealed copy of the application on, or notice of it to be delivered to, any person, the court may—

a

hear the application as soon as reasonably practicable;

b

fix a venue for the application to be heard, in which case rule 4.7 applies to the extent that it is relevant;

c

determine the application without a hearing.

2

However nothing in the Act or these Rules is to be taken as prohibiting the applicant from giving notice.