17 Affidavit sufficient if stated to best of belief. As to affidavits not lodged in time.
It shall be sufficient, in any affidavit directed by the said recited Act to be made and produced in any application thereby authorized, that such affidavit bear that the particulars required by the said recited Act to be specified therein are so specified to the best of the knowledge and belief of the maker of such affidavit; and where such affidavit has not been or shall not be made and lodged at the outset of the proceedings under such application, the Court shall direct such omission to be supplied, and shall, on such omission being supplied, proceed as if such affidavit had been timeously given in.