31. An application for a license under section 25 of the Law authorizing the care and possession of a child, being a British subject, for whose adoption arrangements have been made to be transferred to a British subject resident abroad may be made by a parent or guardian of the child or any other person or body concerned in the making of the arrangements for the adoption of the child.
32. Notice of the application shall be given in Form 9 and the notice shall be delivered or sent by registered post addressed to the Registrar of the District Court or (where the adopter is of the Moslem faith) to the Registrar of the Turkish Family Court within whose jurisdiction the infant, in respect of whom the application is made, resides.
33. The Registrar shall transmit a copy of the notice to the Chief Registrar to be sent to a British consular officer or to some other person abroad who appears to the Court having jurisdiction in the matter to be trustworthy, and shall request the officer or person to report whether the person to whom the care and possession of the child is proposed to be transferred is a suitable person to be entrusted therewith
34. Upon receipt of a report from the British consular officer or other person referred to in Rule 33 of these Rules, the Registrar who received the application shall fix a time for the hearing of the application and shall send to the applicant a notice in Form 10.
35. A copy of the notices referred to in Rules 33 and 34 of these Rules shall be served by the applicant upon the child and upon every person or body who is a parent or guardian of the child, or who has the actual custody of the child, or who is liable to contribute to the support of the child:
Provided that the Court may dispense with the service required by this Rule of a copy of the notices-
(a) upon any person other than the child, if it is satisfied that that person cannot be found, and
(b) upon the child, if it thinks fit having regard to the age and understanding of the child.
36. The Court may issue a notice in Form II requiring any person or body who has the actual custody of the child to produce the child at the hearing of the application.
37. The Court hearing the application may require any person attending for the purpose of making or opposing the application or giving evidence in the matter to be sworn.