Part 1: Tribunals and Inquiries Schedule 7: Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council Section 46: Delegation of Functions by the Lord Chief Justice etc
232.Section 46 enables the Lord Chief Justice to nominate a judicial office holder (as defined in section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) to exercise any of the listed functions given to him under the Act. These are:
	Concurrence with the removal of a judge or other member of the First-tier Tribunal from office (Schedule 2 paragraph 3(4)).
	Concurrence with a request for a court judge to sit in the First-tier Tribunal (Schedule 2 paragraph 6(3)(a)).
	Concurrence in the removal of a judge or other member of the Upper Tribunal from office (Schedule 3 paragraph 3(4)).
	Concurrence with a request for a court judge to sit in the Upper Tribunal (Schedule 3 paragraph 6(3)(a)).
	Power to nominate an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal or a puisne judge of the High Court to preside over a chamber (Schedule 4 paragraph 2(2)).
	Power to nominate an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal or a puisne judge of the High Court to act as a deputy chamber president (Schedule 4 paragraph 5(5)).
	Consultation on the Lord Chancellor’s appointees to the Tribunal Procedure Committee (Schedule 5, paragraph 21(2)).
	Power to appoint members to the Tribunal Procedure Committee (Schedule 5 paragraphs 22 and 24).
	Concurrence in an order changing the composition of the Tribunal Procedure Committee (Schedule 5 paragraph 25).
233.This section also makes similar provision for the Lord President of the Court of Session and the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.