142.-(1) Where it appears to the Court that any debtor or creditor or other person who may be affected by any proceeding under the Law or these rules is a lunatic (hereinafter called the lunatic), the Court may appoint such person as it may think fit to appear for, represent, or act for, and in the name of the lunatic, either generally, or for the purpose of any particular proceeding, or the exercise of any particular rights or powers which under the Law and these rules the lunatic might have exercised if he had been of sound mind.
(2) The appointment may be made either on an application by the Official Receiver or by some other person who appears to the Court to be a proper person to make it, or without any previous application if the Court so thinks fit.
(3) Where the application is made by the Official Receiver his report shall be received as prima facie evidence of its contents; where it is made by any other person it shall be supported by the affidavit of a registered medical practitioner, and notice shall be given to the Official Receiver and trustee (if any), and if the Court so directs to the person alleged to be a lunatic. The medical practitioner shall, if required by the Court, attend the hearing of the application and may be examined.
(4) When a person has been appointed under this rule, any notice under the Law and these rules, served on, or given to, such person shall have the same effect as if the notice had been served on, or given to the lunatic.