Section 43
Authorisation of farmers’ variety.
The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act, 2001
About this Act
An Act to provide for the establishment of an effective system for protection of plant varieties, the rights of farmers and plant breeders and to encourage the development of new varieties of plants.
Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (6) of
section 23 and section 28, where an essentially derived variety is derived from a farmers' variety, the
authorisation under sub-section (2) of section 28 shall not be given by the breeder of such farmers variety
except with the consent of the farmers or group of farmers or community of farmers who have made
contribution in the preservation or development of such variety.