Exceptions from the scope of application

(1) This Act does not apply to the activity of the churches, religious societies and ideological communities, or their associations and institutions.
(2) This Act further does not apply to 1. proceedings of the federal or Land revenue authorities under the Fiscal Code; 2. criminal prosecution, the prosecution and sanctioning of regulatory offences, mutual legal assistance to foreign countries in criminal and civil matters, and, without prejudice to section 80(4), measures of judicial service law; 3. proceedings before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office and the arbitration bodies established at it; 4. proceedings under the Social Code; 5. the law of the equalisation of burdens; 6. the law of reparation.
(3) For the activity of 1. the court administrations and the authorities of the judicial administration, including the corporations under public law subject to their supervision, this Act applies only insofar as the activity is subject to review by the courts of administrative jurisdiction or by the courts competent in administrative-law matters concerning lawyers, patent attorneys and notaries; 2. authorities in performance, aptitude and similar examinations of persons, only sections 3a to 13, 20 to 27, 29 to 38, 40 to 52, 79, 80 and 96 apply; 3. representations of the Federation abroad, this Act does not apply.