Every independent contractor engaged by the Department under any contract (other than a contract of employment), and every employee of any such independent contractor, who is likely, in the course of carrying out the terms of that contract, to have access to information collected under the authority of this Act shall, if required to do so by the Statistician, make a statutory declaration of secrecy similar to the declaration of secrecy prescribed by subsection (1) of this section, regardless of whether that independent contractor or employee has made a declaration of secrecy under any other Act.

A person who has made a statutory declaration of secrecy under subsection (3b) of this section shall be deemed to be an employee of the Department for the purposes of—