(b) Such proceedings shall be commenced by filing with the clerk of the court an affidavit, made by a public officer duly authorised by the Minister in that behalf, setting forth the relevant facts and exhibiting the report or certificate or reports or certificates upon which the declaration and order are sought. (c) (i) Upon the filing of the said affidavit the clerk of the court shall assign a date for the hearing of the claim not less than six weeks from the date of issue of the writ of summons in accordance with the provisions of sub-paragraph (ii). (ii) The clerk of the court shall thereupon issue a writ of summons in the form prescribed setting forth therein the date assigned for the hearing of the claim by the court. (d) The said writ of summons shall be served upon the party named as party defendant therein in the manner prescribed in paragraph (e); and notice of the proceedings in the form prescribed shall be published in the Gazette not less than fourteen days prior to the date assigned for the hearing of the claim. (e) For the purposes of this section, any writ of summons issued under the provisions of this section shall be deemed to have been served upon the party defendant if, not less than fourteen days prior to the date assigned for the hearing of the claim by the court, a true copy thereof is(i) delivered to the said defendant personally; or (ii) addressed to him and left or forwarded by post to him at his usual or last known place of abode or business; or (iii) addressed to him and forwarded by registered post to his usual or last known post office box number; or (iv) where he is unknown, or where he has no address within Zambia, or his address is unknown, published in one issue of the Gazette (f) If any party defendant served with the said writ of summons as provided in paragraph (e) wishes to defend or oppose or contest the said proceedings, he shall, in the form prescribed, give notice of his intention so to do the clerk of the court not less than five days before the date assigned in the said writ of summons for the hearing of the said claim. (g) If any person, who is not a party defendant, desires to defend or oppose or contest the said proceedings, he shall, not less than seven days after the publication of the notice of proceedings provided for in