33.-(1) Before a cause is set down for trial or hearing the pleadings and proceedings in the cause shall be referred by the petitioner or any party who is defending the suit to the Chief Registrar who shall certify that the same are correct and in order or shall refer any irregularity in such pleadings or proceedings or any question arising thereon to the Judge by whom the cause is to be tried for his direction.
(2) (a) (i) In every case in which a party prays that the Court shall exercise its discretion to grant a decree nisi notwithstanding his or her adultery, the petition (or answer) shall contain a prayer to this effect;
(ii) the application for the Chief Registrar’s certificate under sub-rule (1) of this rule shall state whether or not the Court will be asked to exercise its discretion on behalf of the applicant notwithstanding his or her adultery;
(iii) where the discretion of the Court is being sought by reason of the adultery of the applicant for the certificate, there shall be lodged, with the application, a statement signed by the party or his or her advocate setting forth the acts of adultery committed by him or her and all the facts which it is material for the Court to know for the purpose of the exercise of its discretion;
(iv) Where the discretion of the Court is sought by a party other than the applicant for the certificate, such party shall lodge in the registry a corresponding statement within ten days after the receipt of notice of setting down.
(b) No such statement as is mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall, except by the direction of the Judge, be open to inspection by any other party to the suit. This paragraph shall not apply to the Attorney-General as Queen’s Proctor whether he is or is not a party to the suit.
(c) Where such statement contains any allegation of adultery or other matrimonial offence on the part of the other spouse which i not referable to any specific allegation in the pleading, notice of such allegation shall be given to the said spouse, provided that if the Court at the hearing is satisfied that the failure to give notice is justified the same may be dispensed with.
(d) Neither the said statement nor the said notice shall be admissible in evidence against the party lodging or giving the same respectively, except where the party has referred to the said statement or the said notice in evidence given in open Court.