1. Every application under the Housing Act 1966, section 78(2) shall be brought by special summons.

2. The summons shall be entitled in the matter of the Housing Act 1966, and of the compulsory purchase order in question and on the application of the person bringing the application.  It shall state the particular grounds of the application and the relief claimed.

3. The summons shall be served, within ten days after the issue thereof, upon the local authority which made the compulsory purchase order in question and, within twenty-eight days after the issue thereof, on the Minister for the Environment.

4. The evidence on the hearing shall be by affidavit except in so far as the Court may direct oral evidence to be given.