The Act of 2019 is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 55:

"55A.

(1) Where an ex officio member or elected member of the Judicial Conduct Committee who is a member of the Complaints Review Committee is the subject of a complaint or otherwise has a conflict of interest in respect of a matter before the Complaints Review Committee, or the lay member of the Complaints Review Committee has a conflict of interest in respect of a matter before that Committee, the member concerned shall take no part in the performance by that Committee of its function in relation to such complaint or matter, and, accordingly shall not -

(a) attend any meeting of that Committee held for the purpose of performance of that function, or

(b) cast a vote in relation to any decision falling to be made by it for that purpose.

(2) Where subsection (1) applies, the Judicial Conduct Committee shall, for the purpose of performing the function referred to in that subsection, replace the member of the Complaints Review Committee concerned -

(a) in the case of an ex officio member or elected member of the Judicial Conduct Committee who is a member of the Complaints Review Committee, with another ex officio member or elected member of the Judicial Conduct Committee, or

(b) in the case of the lay member, with another lay member of the Judicial Conduct Committee,