14. When a guardian ad litem has made his report to the Court the Registrar shall fix a date and time for the hearing of the application, and shall serve a notice in Form 4 on the following persons, that is to say:-
(a) the applicant;
(b) every person whose consent to the order is required under subsection (4) of section 4 of the Law;
(c) the guardian ad litem;
(d) any other person, not being the infant, who, in the opinion of the Court, ought to be served with a notice;
and any person on whom a notice is required to be served under this Rule shall be a respondent to the application.
15. Where the Court is notified by the guardian ad litem under paragraph (c) of Rule 9 of these Rules that the infant is in his opinion of an age to understand the effect of an adoption order, the Registrar shall serve on the applicant a notice in Form 5.
16. Subject to Rule 17, the Court shall not make an adoption order or an interim order except after the personal attendance before the Court of the applicant, the infant (unless in the opinion of the Court he is not of an age to understand the effect of the adoption order) and the guardian ad litem; but except as aforesaid, the personal attendance of a person served with a notice under Rule 14 shall not be required unless it appears to the Court that there are special circumstances which render his attendance necessary.
17. Where the application is made jointly, the Court may dispense with the personal attendance of one of the applicants if the originating application is verified by an affidavit shorn by that applicant, or, if made outside Cyprus, by declaration made by him and attested by a person of the class prescribed by Rule 40.
18. Unless it appears from the originating application, or is otherwise shown to the satisfaction of the Court, that the applicant does not desire his identity to be kept confidential, the proceedings shall be conducted with a view to securing that he is not seen by or made known to any person (other than the infant or the spouse of the applicant) whose consent to the order is required; and in particular the Court shall direct that the applicant (unless his attendance is dispensed with under Rule 17) shall attend and be heard and examined separately and apart from any such person as aforesaid.
19.-(1) All documents filed in the Court shall be confidential and shall be kept secret by the Registrar.
(2) Every application for an adoption order or an interim order shall be heard and determined in camera.