(2) The appellant or his legal practitioner shall be present when the additional evidence is taken. (3) Evidence taken in pursuance of rule 18 of this Order shall be taken as if it were evidence taken at the trial before the lower court. (4) When forwarding to the Court any additional evidence taken by a lower court in pursuance of rule 18 of this Order, the lower court may express its opinion on the demeanour of the witnesses and of the value of their evidence and may also, if it is the same court against whose decision the appeal has been made, state whether or not it would have come to a different decision had the additional evidence been brought forward at the trial. 20. The fees in the First Schedule to these Rules shall be chargeable in civil appeals save where they would have to be paid by a Government officer acting in his official capacity or where the lower court or the Court waives or remits the fees on the ground of the poverty of the person chargeable therewith where it appears that there are substantial grounds of appeal. 21. Allowances may be made to witnesses in accordance with the provisions of the Third Schedule to these Rules. 22. (1) On application being made for stay of execution under any enactment establishing the lower court, the lower court or the Court may impose one or more of the following conditions(a) that the appellant shall deposit a sum fixed by the Court not exceeding the amount of the money or the value of the property affected by the decision or judgment appealed from, or give security to the satisfaction of the Court for the said sum; (b) that the appellant shall deposit a sum equal to the amount of the costs allowed against him or give security to the satisfaction of the Court for the said sum; (c) that the appellant shall, where the decision or judgment appealed from relates to possession of lands or houses, give security to the satisfaction of the Court for the performance of the decision or judgment in the event of the appeal being dismissed; (d) that the appellant's property shall be seized and attached pending the making of a deposit or the giving of security as aforesaid, including a deposit or security for the expenses incidental to the seizure and attachment; (e) that the appellant's property shall be seized, and attached and sold and the net proceeds deposited in court pending determination of the appeal. (2) Any order made on any such application shall limit the time (not being more than thirty days) for the performance of the conditions posed, and direct that in default of the performance within the time limited execution may issue or proceed. (3) An application for stay of execution under the enactment establishing the lower court may be made at any time after lodgment of the notice of appeal and shall in the first instance be made to the lower court; but where execution has been ordered by the Court the application shall not be made to the lower court but to the Court. (4) The application may be ex parte but the Court may direct notice thereof to be given to the other party to the appeal; and where an order made ex parte the registrar of the Court shall notify the other party of the order made. (5) Where the appellant proposes to give security instead of making a posit, the application shall state the nature of the security and the name of the surety proposed (if any). (6) Any party dissatisfied with an order made by the lower court may to the Court by motion (original or interlocutory, as the case may be) with notice to the other party for a review of the order, and the court may thereupon make such order as may seem just. (7) An appeal shall not operate as a stay of execution under the decision or judgment appealed from except so far

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