(1) An election petition shall be abated by the death of a sole petitioner or the survivor of several petitioners.
(2) The abatement of an election petition shall not affect the liability of the petitioner's legal personal representative to pay the costs previously incurred.
(3) On the abatement of an election petition, a party or person entitled to be a petitioner shall give to the Registrar notice of the abatement and the Registrar shall immediately cause the notice as set out in Form 16 of the Schedule to be published in the Gazette and in a newspaper of general circulation in Saint Lucia.
(4) Within one month after publication of the notice in the Gazette, a person who is entitled to be a petitioner in respect of the election to which the election petition relates may apply to the Court to be substituted as a petitioner.
(5) The judge may, if he or she thinks fit, substitute as a petitioner the applicant on whose behalf security to the same amount as is required in the case of an original election petition is given and the security shall be subject to the same objection as the security given in an original election petition.