law: Special Marriage Act, 1954 
  41. Power of High Court to make rules
  
  regulating procedure
  (1) The High Court
  
  shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, make such rules consistent with
  
  the provisions contained in this Act and the Code of Civil Procedure,1908, as
  
  it my consider expedient for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions
  
  of Chapters V, VI and VII.
  (2) In particular, and
  
  without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, such rules
  
  shall provide for,-
  (a) the impleading by the petitioner of the adulterer
  
  as a co-respondent on a petition for divorce on the ground of adultery, and the
  
  circumstances in which the petitioner may be excused from doing so ;
  (b) the awarding of
  
  damages against any such co-respondent ;
  (c) the intervention in any proceeding under
  
  Chapter V or Chapter VI by any person not already a party thereto ;
  (d) the form and contents of petitions for
  
  nullity of marriage or for divorce and the payment of costs incurred by parties
  
  to such petitions ; and
  (e) any other matte for which no provision or
  
  no sufficient provision is made in this Act, and for which provision is made in
  
  the Indian Divorce Act, 1869.