6(1)Any person who claims that a person purporting to hold office as a representative to the Assembly is disqualified or was disqualified at the time of, or at any time since, his election may apply to the court for a declaration or, as the case may be, declarator to that effect, and the decision of the court on the application shall be final.
(2)On an application under this paragraph the person in respect of whom the application is made shall be the respondent or, as the case may be, defender; and the applicant shall give such security for the costs or expenses of the proceedings, not exceeding £200, as the court may direct.
(3)No declaration or declarator shall be made under this paragraph in respect of any person on grounds which subsisted at the time of his election if there is pending, or has been tried, an election petition in which his disqualification on those grounds is, or was, in issue.
(4)Any declaration or declarator made by the court on an application under this paragraph shall be certified in writing to the Secretary of State forthwith by the court.
(5)The court for the purposes of this paragraph is the High Court, the Court of Session or the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland according as the Assembly constituency to which the application relates is in England and Wales, or Scotland, or Northern Ireland ; and in this paragraph " disqualified " means disqualified under paragraph 5 above for the office of representative to the Assembly (whether generally or in relation to a particular Assembly constituency).
