8. (1) Subject to section 34(3), nothing in this Act shall affect the operation of section 851A of the Act of 1997.

(2) Subject to section 64(3), this Act shall not apply to information—

(a) collected for statistical purposes in accordance with the Statistics Act 1993, or

(b) disclosed in accordance with regulations made under section 2 of the Vital Statistics and Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1952.

(3) This Act, other than Chapter 3 of Part 9, shall not apply to the disclosure of information under the Civil Registration Act 2004.