21. Every appeal shall be conducted in accordance with the following conditions and regulations:
(a)
The appellant shall, within the time hereinafter mentioned, serve on such of the other parties to the proceedings as he may consider to be directly affected by the appeal, notice of his intention to appeal, and shall also, within two days after setting down the appeal give to the said parties notice of the general grounds of the appeal.
(b)
Notice of appeal shall be served within 28 days from the date on which the decision is pronounced.
(c)
If the appeal is brought by any party other than the Attorney-General, the appellant shall before the appeal is heard give such security, if any, by deposit of money or otherwise, for the costs to be occasioned by the appeal, as the Judge from whose decision the appeal is brought on application made to him for that purpose may direct.
(d)
The appellant shall, before the expiration of the time within which notice of appeal may be given, leave with the Registrar of the Supreme Court, a copy of the notice of appeal, and the officer shall thereupon set down the appeal by entering it in the proper list.
(e)
The Supreme Court shall consist of such Judge or Judges as may be nominated by the Chief Justice and shall be assisted by not less than two assessors to be nominated by the Judge or Judges constituting the Court.
(f)
The Supreme Court may, if it thinks fit, order any other person, other than the parties served with the notice of appeal, to be added as a party or parties to the proceedings for the purposes of the appeal, on such terms with respect to costs and otherwise as the Supreme Court may think fit. Any party to the proceedings may object to the appearance on the appeal of any other party to the proceedings as unnecessary.
(g)
The evidence taken before the Judge from whose decision the appeal is brought shall be proved before the Supreme Court by a copy of the notes of the Judge or of the shorthand writer, clerk, secretary, or other person authorized by him to take down the evidence, or by such other materials as the Supreme Court thinks expedient; and a copy of the evidence, and of the report to the Minister containing the decision from which the appeal is brought, and of the notice of the general grounds of the appeal, shall be left with the Registrar of the Supreme Court before the appeal comes on for hearing. For the purpose of this rule, copies of the notes of the evidence, and of the report, shall be supplied to the appellant, on request, by the Judge or other person having charge thereof, on payment of 25 cents per folio of 100 words.
(h)
The Supreme Court shall have full power to receive further evidence on questions of fact, such evidence to be either by oral examination in Court, by affidavit, or by deposition taken before an examiner or commissioner. Evidence may also be given with special leave of the Supreme Court as to matters which have occurred since the date of the decision from which the appeal is brought.
(i)
The Supreme Court shall have power to make such order as to the whole or any part of the costs of and occasioned by the appeal as the Court may think just.
(j)
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this rule, every appeal shall be conducted under and in accordance with the general rules and regulations applicable to ordinary proceedings before the Court of Appeal, but there shall not be anything in the nature of pleadings other than the notice of the general grounds of the appeal, except by special permission of the Supreme Court.
(k)
On the conclusion of an appeal the Supreme Court shall send to the Minister a report of the case in such form as the Supreme Court may think fit.