Section 31: Exceptions to the breeder's right.

(1) The breeder's right shall not extend to any act carried out:
(a) privately and for non-commercial purposes;
(b) for experimental purposes; and
(c) for the purpose of breeding any other variety, and, except where the provisions of section 30 (4) - (6) of this Act apply, any act referred to in section 30 (l) - (3) in respect of such other varieties.
(2) For the list of agricultural crops specified by the Minister, the breeder's right shall not extend to a farmer who, within reasonable limits and subject to the safeguarding of the legitimate interests of the holder of the breeder's right, uses for propagating purposes on his own holding, the product of the harvest which he has obtained by planting on his own holding, the protected variety or a variety referred to in section 30 (4) (a) or (b) of this Act.
(3) The reasonable limits and the means of safeguarding the legitimate interest of the holder of the breeder's right shall be specified in the regulations made under this Act.