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owner make a request in writing in that behalf to the landlord or other 
person levying the distress, and also give security for any additional costs 
that may be occasioned by such extension of time. Provided that the 
landlord or person levying the distress may, at the vsritten request or vrith 
the written consent of the tenant, or such owner as aforesaid, sell the gootls 
and chattels distrained or part of them at any time before the expiration of 
such extended period as aforesaid. 
52. Bailiffs to he appointed hy county court judges. — From and after the 
commencement of this Act no person shall act as bailiff to levy any distress 
on any holding to which this Act applies unless he shall be authorised to 
act as bailiff by a certificate in writing \mder the hand of the judge of a 
county court; and every county court judge shall, on or before the thirty-first 
day of December one thousand eight himdred and eighty-three, and after- 
wards from time to time as occasion shall require, appoint a competent 
number of fit and proper persons to act as such bailiffs as aforesaid. If any 
person so appointed shall be proved to the satisfaction of the said judge to 
have been guilty of any extortion or other misconduct in the execution of 
his duty as a bailiff, he shall be liable to have his appointment summarily 
cancelled by the said judge. 
PART HI. 
General Provisions. 
53. Commencement of Act. — This Act shall come into force on the first 
day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, which day is in 
this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act. 
54. Holdings to which Act applies. — Nothing in this Act shall apply to a 
holding that is not either wholly agricultural or wholly pastoral, or in part 
agricultural, and as to the residue pa.storal, or in whole or in part cultivated 
as a market garden, or to any holding let to the tenant during his continuance 
in any office, appointment, or employment held under the landlord. 
55. Avoidance of agreement inconsistent tvith Act. — Any contract, agree- 
ment, or covenant made by a tenant, by virtue of which he is deprived of 
his right to claim compensation under this Act in respect of any improve- 
ment mentioned in the First Schedule hereto (except an agreement providing 
such compensation as is by this Act permitted to be substituted for com- 
pensation under this Act), shall, so far as it deprives him of such right, be 
void both at law and in equity. 
56. Bight of tenant in respect of improvement purchased from outgoing 
tenant. — Where an incoming tenant has, with the consent in writing of his 
landlord, paid to an outgoing tenant any compensation payable under or in 
pursuance of this Act in respect of the whole or part of any imjirovement, 
such incoming tenant shall be entitled on quitting the holdmg to claim com- 
pensation in respect of such improvement or part in like manner, if at all, as 
tlie outgoing tenant would have been entitled if he had remained tenant of 
the holding, and quitted the holding at the time at which the incoming 
tenant quits the same. 
57. Compensation under this Act to he exclusive. — A tenant shall not be 
entitled to claim compensation by custom or otherwise than in manner 
authorised by this Act in respect of any improvement for which he is entitled 
to compensation under or in pursuance of this Act, but where he is not 
entitled to compensation under or in pursuance of this Act he may recover 
compensation under any other Act of Parliament, or any agreement or 
custom, in the same mannc r as if this Act had not i)asscd. 
58. Provision as to change of tenancy. — A tenant who has remained in 
his holding during a change or changes of tenancy shall not thereafter on 
