Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 5: Sharing for research purposes Section 65: Provisions supplementary to section 64
This section sets out the parameters of the power, and how it interacts with existing law.
	Subsection (1) provides that disclosure of information under section 64 does not breach the common law duty of confidentiality or any other restrictions on disclosing the information.
	Subsections (2) and (3) provide, however, that information cannot be disclosed under section 64 if to do so would breach the Data Protection Act 1998 or be prohibited by any of Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 or, until its repeal, by Part 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
	Subsection (4) provides that where a public authority has functions which relate to the provision of health services or adult social care, that public authority cannot disclose under section 64(1) information it holds in connection with such functions. Subsection (4) does not prevent the public authority from disclosing information that it holds in connection with its other functions.
	Subsection (5) provides that section 64 does not limit any power to disclose information that exists apart from that section.
	Subsections (6) to (8) allow for public authorities and processors to charge fees to researchers for work done, where the researchers have requested information to be disclosed under section 64(1). Fees charged a by public authority must be charged on a cost-recovery basis.