(1) A petition is abated by the death of a sole petitioner or the survivor of several petitioners.
(2) The abatement of a petition shall not affect the liability of the petitioner's legal personal representative to pay the costs previously incurred.
(3) On the abatement of a petition notice of such abatement shall be given by any party or person interested in the petition to the Registrar who shall cause the same to be inserted in the Gazette and in a newspaper published in Saint Lucia.
(4) Within one month after publication of the notice any person who might have been a petitioner in respect of the election to which the petition relates may apply by summons to the Court or a judge to be substituted as a petitioner.
(5) The Court or a judge may, if it or he or she thinks fit, substitute as a petitioner any such applicant on whose behalf security to the same amount as is required in the case of an original petition is given, and such security shall be subject to the same objection as the security given in an original petition.