The Central Office of the F1Senior Courts shall perform such business as the F2Lord Chief Justice may, with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor, direct.

Subject to any direction F3under subsection (1), the Central Office shall perform such business as it performed immediately before the commencement of this Act.

The Lord Chief Justice may nominate a judicial office holder (as defined in section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) to exercise his functions under this section.