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procedure or any other matter, without adopting all the provisions of this Act ; 
:and any provision so adopted shall have efifect in connection with the agree- 
ment accordingly. 
But where, at the time of the making of the agreement, the landlord is not 
Absolute owner of the holding for his own benefit, no charge shall be made on 
the holding, under this Act, by virtue of the agreement, greater than or 
different in nature or duration from the charge which might have been made 
thereon, under this Act, in the absence of the agreement. 
Application of Act to Future Tenancies. 
56. This Act shall apply to every contract of tenancy beginning after the 
commencement of this Act, unless, in any case, the landlord and tenant agree 
in writing, in the contract of tenancy, or otherwise, that this Act, or any part 
or provision of this Act, shall not apply to the contract ; and, in that case, 
this Act, or the part or provision thereof to which that agreement refers (as 
the case may be), shall not apply to the contract. 
Application of Act to Existing Tenancies. 
57. In any case of a contract of tenancy from year to year or at will, current 
at the commencement of this Act, this Act shall not apply to the contract, 
if within two months after the commencement of this Act the landlord or the 
tenant gives notice in writing to the other to the efifect that he (the yjerson 
giving the notice) desires that the existing contract of tenancy between them 
shall remain unaffected by this Act ; but such a notice shall be revocable by 
■writing ; and in the absence of any such notice, or on revocation of every such 
notice, this Act shall apply to the contract. 
In every other case of a contract of tenancy current at the commencement 
■of this Act, this Act shall not apply to the contract. 
Exception of Non-Agricultural and Small Holdings. 
68. Nothing in this Act shall apply to a holding that is not either wholly 
^ricultural or wholly pastoral, or in part agricultural and as to the residue 
pastoral, or that is of less extent than two acres. 
Exception where other Compensation. 
59. A tenant shall not be entitled to claim compensation under this Act 
and under any custom of the country or contract in respect of the same work 
or thing. 
General Saving of Rights. 
60. Except as in this Act expressed, nothing in this Act shall take away, 
abridge, or prejudicially affect any power, right, or remedy of a landlord, 
tenant, or other person, vested in or exercisable by him by virtue of any 
other Act or law, or under any custom of the country, or otherwise, in respect 
of a contract of tenancy or other contract, or of any improvement, waste, 
«mbleraents, tillages, away-going crops, fixtures, tax, rate, tithe-rentcharge, 
rent, or other thing. 
