20. Appeals from District Judges or Additional District Judges.-

(1) Save as otherwise provided by any enactment for the time being in force, an appeal from a decree or order of a District Judge or Additional District Judge exercising original jurisdiction shall lie to the High Court.

(2) An appeal shall not lie to the High Court from a decree or order of an Additional District Judge in any case, in which, if the decree or order had been made by the District Judge, an appeal would not lie to that Court.

21. Appeals from 3 [Civil Judges].-

(1) Save as aforesaid, an appeal from decree or order of a 4 [Civil Judge] shall lie-

(a) to the District Judge where the value of the original suit in which the decree or order was made did not exceed 5 [twenty lakh rupees;] and

(b) to the High Court in any other case.

(2) where the function of receiving appeals which lie to the District Judge under sub-section (1) has been assigned to an Additional District Judge, the appeals may be preferred to the Additional District Judge. 

(3) The High Court may by notification direct that appeals lying to the District Court from all or any of the decrees or orders passed in an original suit by any 1 [Civil Judge] shall be preferred to such other 2 [Civil Judge] as may be mentioned in the notification and the appeals shall thereupon be preferred accordingly and the Court of such other 3 [Civil Judge] shall be deemed to be a District Court for the purposes of all appeals so preferred.

4 [21-A. Power of the Chief Justice to transfer pending suits, appeals and proceedings to Subordinate Civil Courts.-

The Chief Justice of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh may transfer any suit, appeal or proceedings, which is or are pending before the High Court of Himachal Pradesh immediately before the commencement of the Himachal Pradesh Courts (Amendment) Act, 1994 to such a Subordinate Civil Court in Himachal Pradesh which would have jurisdiction to entertain such suit, appeal or proceedings, had such suit, appeal or proceedings been instituted or filed for the first time after such commencement.]

22. Power to transfer to a 5 [Civil Judge] appeals from other 6 [Civil Judges].-

(1) A District Judge may transfer any appeal pending before him from the decrees or orders of 7 [Civil Judges] to any other 8 [Civil Judge] under his administrative control competent to dispose of the same.

(2) The District Judge may withdraw any appeal so transferred, and either hear and dispose of it himself or transfer it to a Court under his administrative control competent to dispose of the same.

(3) Appeals transferred under this section shall be disposed of subject to the rules applicable to like appeals when disposed of by the District Judge.

(4) The powers conferred by this section shall be exercised subject to such general or special orders as may from time to time be issued in this behalf by the High Court.