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8. Subject to the provisions of Rule 7, where an application is made to the Court for an adoption order, the Court shall as soon as practicable appoint a welfare officer within whose area the applicant or the infant resides to be the guardian ad litem of the infant for the purposes of the application and shall cause one copy of the originating application and of the documents attached thereto to be served on him together with an undertaking by the applicant in Form 3 to pay the welfare officer's proper costs for acting as guardian ad litem for the infant.