4. Until the appointment of a Chief Executive under paragraph 13 of Schedule 1, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal may exercise—
(a)the power to pay its members in section 46(5) of the Solicitors Act 1974, as substituted by paragraph 47(2) of Schedule 16, as if for the words the “Legal Services Board” there were substituted “the Society”; and
(b)the duty to submit a budget in section 46A of the Solicitors Act 1974, as inserted by paragraph 48 of Schedule 16, as if for the words the “Legal Services Board” there were substituted “the Society. In the event that the Society does not approve that budget, the Tribunal or the Society may ask the Master of the Rolls to approve the budget or require the Tribunal to submit a revised budget.”