7. (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act, other than Part 5 and Chapter 3 of Part 9, does not affect the operation of the Act of 2005.

(2) Notwithstanding section 262(6)(b) of the Act of 2005, a specified body (in this section referred to as the “first mentioned specified body”) may, subject to subsection (3), disclose the information comprised in a person’s public service identity to another specified body (in this section referred to as the “second mentioned specified body”), where the information is disclosed in accordance with this Act.

(3) The first mentioned specified body may not disclose the information comprised in a person’s public service identity to the second mentioned specified body for the purpose specified in section 13(2)(a)(ii)(VIII).

(4) The reference in subsections (2) and (3) to the disclosure of the information referred to in those subsections includes the accessing of that information by the second mentioned specified body where that information is contained in a base registry in respect of which the first mentioned specified body is the base registry owner.

(5) In this section—

“specified body” has the same meaning as it has in section 262 of the Act of 2005;

“public service identity” has the same meaning as it has in section 262 of the Act of 2005, subject to the modification that the reference, in the definition of that phrase in subsection (1) of that section, to information specified in subsection (3) of that section shall not include a reference to special categories of personal data.