(1) An applicant may apply to the Court for leave to withdraw a petition.
(2) The applicant must, at least 14 days before the application is filed, advertise, in a newspaper circulating in the State, Territory or Electoral Division for which the election was held, the applicant's intention to apply for leave to withdraw a petition.
(3) At the hearing of the application, a person who is competent to file a petition on the same grounds as the applicant's may apply to the Court to be substituted for the applicant in the petition proceeding.
(4) If a person is so substituted, the proceeding must be
continued as if the person was the original applicant.