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An Act to postpone for a limited time the operation of certain provisions of the Bengal Tenancy Act, 1885. WHEREAS it is provided by the Bengal Tenancy Act, 1885, that that Act shall come into force on such date as the Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, may, by notification in the local official Gazette, appoint in this behalf; And whereas, in exercise of the power thus conferred, the Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, has, by a notification in the local official Gazette, appointed the first day of November, 1885, as the date on which the said Act is to come into force; And whereas it is convenient that certain portions of the said Act relating to deposits of rent and distraint should not come into force until a later date; It is hereby enacted as follows:—