Perhaps the amendment was to remove his father's name, so as to avoid the need to have renounced UK/Kenyan citizenship despite a Hawaiian birth? Who knows, but I think the focus should be on how he's keeping it secret, not on what is there.
Under the current statute Cheney would be too distant a relative to be able to receive the certified standard copy. Under previous statutes he would have been able to, so it seems like that disclosure might have been “grandfathered in”.
I agree that the focus needs to be the hiding. For one thing, we’ve got so many contradictory statements from the DOH that only God knows which of their statements is true.
Actually, like you said, Cheney COULD have received a copy under the statute. But currently they are saying the ancestor has to be once or twice removed from the person requesting. I’m not sure what they use as the basis for that. Seems like I’ve seen something (in an OIP Opinion letter?) about it.
But then they’ve been saying a lot of stuff that just isn’t so, so maybe there isn’t anything legal that narrows it down that much.