44 TJie Agricultural Holdings (England) Act, 1883. 
to an existing contract of tenancy could exclude the section 
requiring this extended notice to quit by notice to the other, or 
by agreement without notice.* Now a year's notice must be 
given, unless both landlord and tenant agree in writing that six 
months' notice shall suffice. Another important change is that 
§ 33 affects tenancies from year to year, whether they began 
before or after January 1, 1884. The result is that, unless notice 
was given before the new year in the case of then existing 
tenancies, or unless there has since been an agreement to ex- 
clude the section, a year's notice must now be given on either 
side expiring with the year of tenancy. Leases are not affected. 
" Contracts of tenancy current at the commencement of this 
Act," that is, at January 1, 1884, is a term used, it will be 
remembered, in § 5. Such tenancies are also affected by § 33. 
According to § 6 1 we are, for the purposes of the Act, to inter- 
pret a tenancy from year to year under such contracts as con- 
tinuing until the first day on which the landlord or tenant 
could, by giving notice to the other, cause the tenancy to deter- 
mine ; on and after that day it is to be deemed a tenancy under a 
contract of tenancy beginning after the commencement of the Act. 
We must join together § 33 and § 61 to see when yearly tenancies 
current on January 1 can be determined, and when therefore 
the Act will take full effect upon such tenancies. All contracts 
of tenancy from year to year existing on January 1 being 
put an end to, as far as notice to quit is concerned, unless 
expressly renewed by agreement, it follows that all such con- 
tracts not so renewed can only be determined by a year's notice 
expiring with a year of tenancy. A Lady-Day holding, then, it 
would seem, might be determined by a year's notice given at 
Lady-Day, 1884, and expiring at the same period in 1885 ; a 
Michaelmas holding by a notice given at Michaelmas, 1884, 
and expiring at Michaelmas, 1885 ; the last of the existing 
tenancies to be determined being those which begin to run at 
Christmas, and as to which, if no notice were given at Christ- 
mas, 1883, the earliest notice after the commencement of the 
Act would be one beginning at Christmas, 1884, and ending at 
the same time in 1885. According to this view, the Act will 
take full effect upon all existing tenancies from year to year in 
January, 188(5 ; land let upon lease will of course be affected 
only at the end of the respective terms limited in the lease. 
Another view, however, entitled to respect is taken by Mr, 
Shaw-Lefevre,t namely, that as regards tenancies current at 
January 1, 1884, the Act will not come into full operation until 
* Soo a case under tlio Agricultural Holdings Act, 1875, decided by Lord 
Coleridge in 1878 (Wilkinson v. Calvert, :! L. J{., C. P. D., 3G0). 
t 'Nineteenth Century' for October, 188;i, p. G85. 
