New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

21 Notice of abatement of petition under section 255(3) of Act

• (1) If a petition abates under section 255(1) of the Act (because of the death of a sole petitioner or of the survivor of several petitioners), the Registrar of the Court must, on learning of the death,—

  • (a) serve a notice of the abatement on each respondent; and

  • (b) publish the notice of the abatement at least once in a newspaper circulating in the district to which the petition relates.

  (2) A notice of the abatement must be in form 6 of the Schedule.

  Compare: 1908 No 89 Schedule 2 r 814 (SR 1998/325)