JUDGMENT

Wilson, J. - Section 170 of the Bengal Tenancy Act VIII of 1885 enacts that "Sections 278--283 (both inclusive) of the CPC shall not apply to a tenure or holding attached in execution of a decree for arrears due thereon." This Act became law on the 1st November 1885. Among the sections of the Code thus excluded are those under which claims to property attached in execution are made. Before the Bengal Tenancy Act came into operation, a decree for rent was obtained under the Rent Act then in force (Bengal Act VIII of 1869), which Act embodied the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, After the Bengal Tenancy Act became law, the tenancy in respect of which the rent decreed had become due was attached in execution of the decree. The present applicant filed a claim to the property attached, but the Munsif, in whose Court the proceedings took place, rejected the claim as being forbidden by Section 170 of the Bengal Tenancy Act. The question that we have to consider is, whether Section 170 of that Act applies to the present case, and the answer depends upon Section 6 of the General Clauses Act 1 of 1868, by which "the repeal of any Statute, Act, or Regulation shall not affect