s.9Power of Court in certain cases to dispense with service of notice of judgment
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Section 9Part 0 —

Power of Court in certain cases to dispense with service of notice of judgment

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Where, in an action for partition, it appears to the Court that notice of the judgment on the hearing of the cause cannot be served on all the persons on whom that notice is by this Act required to be served, or cannot be so served without expense disproportionate to the value of the property to which the action relates, the Court may, if it thinks fit, on the request of any of the parties interested in the property, and notwithstanding the dissent or disability of any others of them, by order dispense with that service on any person or class of persons specified in the order, and instead thereof may direct advertisements to be published, at such times and in such manner as the Court shall think fit, calling upon all persons claiming to be interested in such property who have not been so served to come in and establish their respective claims in respect thereof, before a Judge in Chambers, within a time to be thereby limited.
After the expiration of the time so limited, all persons who shall not have so come in and established such claims, whether they are within or without the jurisdiction of the Court (including persons under any disability), shall be bound by the proceedings in the action as if, on the day of the date of the order dispensing with service, they had been served with notice of the judgment service whereof is dispensed with; and thereupon the powers of the Court under section 10 shall extend to the interests of all such persons in the property to which the action relates as if they had been parties to the action; and the Court may, if it shall think fit, direct a sale of property, and give all necessary or proper consequential directions.

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