(1) Except as provided in this section and section 16, the decision of the Tribunal shall be final.
(2) The applicant, the Maintenance Officer on behalf of the applicant, a respondent, an approved person or organisation or any other affected party may appeal to the District Judge from the decision of the Tribunal upon any question of law or of mixed law and fact except in any case where the Tribunal has made the order with the consent of the parties unless it is alleged 12 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH MAINTENANCE OF PARENTS AND DEPENDANTS ACT, 2001 that the consent was obtained by means of fraud, duress, threat or misrepresentation.
(3) The District Judge shall decide every appeal preferred to it as expeditiously as possible.
(4) The procedure governing such appeals under sub-sections (2) and
(3) shall be the same as that for appeals from decisions of the Sub-Judge to the District Judge.
(5) The District Judge shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any such appeal and may confirm, vary or annul the decision of the Tribunal on appeal and make such further or other order on such appeal, whether as to costs or otherwise, as the District Judge may consider fit.
(6) There shall be no further right of appeal from decisions of the District Judge.