2. In this Act—

“Board” means the Board of the Council;

“committee” means a committee of the Council, namely—

(a) the Judicial Studies Committee,

(b) the Personal Injuries Guidelines Committee,

(c) the Sentencing Guidelines and Information Committee,

(d) each of the Judicial Support Committees,

(e) the Judicial Conduct Committee, or

(f) a committee established under section 16;

“complaint” means a complaint made under section 50;

“complainant” means a person who makes a complaint or on whose behalf a complaint is made;

“Complaints Review Committee” means the Complaints Review Committee established under section 55;

“control”, in relation to a document, includes the ability to procure the document;

“co-opted member of the Board” has the meaning assigned to it by section 12(5);

“Council” means the Judicial Council established by section 6;

“Data Protection Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016¹ on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation);

“designated judge or designated judges”, in relation to the process for the resolution by informal means of complaints under Chapter 4 of Part 5, means—

(a) in the case of an ordinary judge of the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice,

(b) in the case of an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal, the President of the Court of Appeal,

(c) in the case of an ordinary judge of the High Court, the President of the High Court,

(d) in the case of an ordinary judge or a specialist judge of the Circuit Court, the President of the Circuit Court,

(e) in the case of a judge (other than the President) of the District Court, the President of the District Court,

(f) in the case of the President of the Court of Appeal, the President of the High Court, the President of the Circuit Court or the President of the District Court, the Chief Justice, and

(g) in the case of the Chief Justice, the President of the Court of Appeal, the President of the High Court, the President of the Circuit Court and the President of the District Court;

“document” includes—

(a) a book, record or other written or printed material in any form (including in any electronic device),

(b) a map, plan or drawing,

(c) a disc, tape or other mechanical or electronic device in which data other than visual images are embodied so as to be capable, with or without the aid of some other mechanical or electronic equipment, of being reproduced from the disc, tape or other device,

(d) a film, disc, tape or other mechanical or electronic device in which visual images are embodied so as to be capable, with or without the aid of some other mechanical or electronic equipment, of being reproduced from the film, disc, tape or other device, and

(e) a copy of anything which falls under paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d);

“elected member” means—

(a) in relation to the Board, a judge elected in accordance with section 12(4) to be an elected member of the Board, and

(b) in relation to the Judicial Conduct Committee, a judge elected in accordance with section 44(4) to be an elected member of the Judicial Conduct Committee,

as may be appropriate;

“electronic device” includes any device which uses any electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, biometric or photonic means, or other forms of related technology, or any combination thereof, to store or transmit data or both to store and transmit data;

“establishment day” means the day appointed under section 5;

“European Court of Human Rights” has the meaning it has in Eusection 1(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003;

“ ex officio member” means—

(a) in relation to the Board, a judge holding one of the judicial offices specified in section 12(2), and

(b) in relation to the Judicial Conduct Committee, a judge holding one of the judicial offices specified in section 44(2),

as may be appropriate;

“International Court of Justice” means the International Court of Justice established under the Charter of the United Nations;

“International Criminal Court” means the International Criminal Court established under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court done at Rome on 17 July 1998;

“international tribunal” has the meaning it has in section 2 of the International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1998;

“judge” means a judge of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the Circuit Court or the District Court;

“judge concerned”, in relation to a complaint, has the meaning assigned to it by section 50;

“Judicial Conduct Committee” means the committee established under section 43;

“judicial misconduct” means conduct (whether an act or omission) by a judge, whether in the execution of his or her office or otherwise, and whether generally or on a particular occasion, that—

(a) constitutes a departure from acknowledged standards of judicial conduct, such standards to have regard to the principles of judicial conduct referred to in sections 7(1)(b) and 43(2), and

(b) brings the administration of justice into disrepute;

“Judicial Studies Committee” means the committee established under section 17;

“Judicial Support Committees” means the committees established under section 30;

“lay member” means—

(a) in relation to the Sentencing Guidelines and Information Committee, a person appointed under section 24(3) to be a lay member of that Committee,

(b) in relation to the Judicial Conduct Committee, a person appointed under section 44(5) to be a lay member of that Committee, and

(c) in relation to a panel of inquiry, a person appointed under section 67(1)(b) to be a lay member of that panel of inquiry,

as may be appropriate;

“local authority” has the meaning it has in the Local Government Act 2001;

“Minister” means the Minister for Justice and Equality;

“panel of inquiry” means a panel of inquiry comprising the persons who are appointed as members of the panel of inquiry under section 67 to perform the functions conferred on a panel of inquiry by this Act;

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“Personal Injuries Guidelines Committee” means the committee established under section 18;

“personal injury” has the meaning it has in the Civil Liability Act 1961;

“Registrar”, in relation to the Judicial Conduct Committee, has the meaning assigned to it by section 49;

“registrar to a panel of inquiry” has the meaning assigned to it by section 67(7);

“Secretary”, in relation to the Council, has the meaning assigned to it by section 32;

“sentence” includes any order or decision of a court consequent on a conviction for an offence or a finding of guilt in respect of an offence;

“sentencing guidelines” shall be construed in accordance with section 91;

“Sentencing Guidelines and Information Committee” means the committee established under section 23.