Every petition under this Act shall be served on the party to be affected thereby, either within or without 1[India], in such manner as the High Court by general or special order from time to time directs.
Provided that the court may dispense with such service altogether in case it seems necessary or expedient so to do.
1Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for the Provinces, which had been substituted by the A.O. 1948, for "British India".