Amendment of section 52.7. In section 52 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1),—
(a) after clause (aa), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:—
"(ab) the doing of any act necessary to obtain information essential for operating inter-operability of an independently created computer programme with other programmes by a lawful possessor of a computer programme provided that such information is not otherwise readily available;
(ac) the observation, study or test of functioning of the computer programme in order to determine the ideas and principles which underline any elements of the programme while performing such acts necessary for the functions for which the computer programme was supplied;
(ad) the making of copies or adaptation of the computer programme from a personally legally obtained copy for non-commercial personal use;";
(b) in the proviso to clause (p), for the words "fifty years", the words "sixty years" shall be substituted.
