88. The provisions of this Act shall apply to all suits, appeals and proceedings including proceedings in execution for the ejectment of a non-agricultural tenant which are pending at the date of the commencement of this Act and also to all decrees passed for the ejectment of a non-agricultural tenant which have not been executed and are not barred by limitation and in respect of which no proceedings in execution are so pending, and the tenants against whom such suits, appeals or proceedings are so pending or such decrees have been passed shall not be liable to be ejected on any ground except under the provisions of this Act.