law: The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001
  43. Authorisation of
  
  farmers' variety.-
  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.