Rule 19 Procedure at hearing

At the hearing of an application under Chapter 3F of Part 5 of the Act, any person to whom a copy of the application has been given may attend and be heard on the question of whether the application should be granted, but the fact that any such person does not attend does not prevent the court from hearing the application.

Subject to the foregoing provisions of these Rules, proceedings on such an application are regulated in the same manner as proceedings on a complaint, and accordingly for the purposes of these Rules, the application is deemed to be a complaint, the applicant a complainant, a respondent to be a defendant and any notice given under rule 3(5), 4(5), 6(3), 9(5), 10(4) or 11(5) to be a summons.

But nothing in this rule enables a warrant of arrest to be issued for failure to appear in answer to any such notice.

At the hearing of an application under Chapter 3F of Part 5 of the Act, the court must require the matters contained in the application to be sworn by the applicant under oath, may require the applicant to answer any questions under oath and may require any response from a respondent to the application to be made under oath.

The court must record or cause to be recorded the substance of any statements made under oath which are not already recorded in the written application.