(1) On a petition for divorce presented by the husband in which adultery is alleged, or in the answer of a husband praying for divorce and alleging adultery, the husband shall make the alleged adulterer a corespondent unless excused by the Court on special grounds from doing so.
(2) On a petition for divorce presented by the wife in which adultery is alleged, the Court may, if it thinks fit, direct that the alleged adulteress be made a respondent.
(3) Where an alleged adulterer is made a co-respondent on such a petition as is mentioned in subsection (1) or an alleged adulteress is made a respondent on such a petition as is mentioned in subsection (2), the Court may after the close of the evidence on the part of the petitioner, direct that the co-respondent or, as the case may be, the respondent (referred to in subsection (2)) be dismissed from the suit, if the Court is of opinion that there is not sufficient evidence against him or her.