New Zealand Legislation: Acts

18 Exceptions to grantees' rights

• Notwithstanding section 17, any person may—

  • (a) propagate, grow, or use a protected variety, for non-commercial purposes; or

  • (b) if the production of the hybrid or new variety concerned does not require repeated use of that variety,—

    • (i) hybridise, or produce a new variety from, a protected variety; or

    • (ii) sell any hybrid of, or new variety produced from, a protected variety; or

  • (c) use reproductive material from a protected variety for human consumption or other non-reproductive purposes.

  Compare: 1973 No 37 s 22(3)