(2) Any person having the custody or charge of any public record or documents or of the records or documents of any local authority, corporation, person, partnership, firm, company, society or association from which, in the opinion of the Statistician, information in respect of the matter in relation to which the collection of statistics is required can be obtained or which would aid in the completion or correction of such statistics, shall, despite the provisions of any other law enjoining secrecy, grant to the Statistician or any officer acting on his or her behalf, access to such records or documents for the purpose of obtaining therefrom such information.