{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1985/section-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1985/section-42.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/61",
  "legislation_title": "Administration of Justice Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1985",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Exclusion of barristers from legal aid work.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to any exclusion or restriction made by the disciplinary provisions applicable to barristers, where a disciplinary tribunal hears a charge of professional misconduct or breach of professional standards against a barrister, it may order that he shall be excluded from criminal legal aid work , either temporarily or for a specified period, if it determines that there is good reason for the exclusion arising out of—\n(a) his conduct in connection with any such services as are mentioned in section 40(1), or\n(b) his professional conduct generally.\n(2) Subsection (4) of section 41 shall apply to an order under subsection (1) as it applies to an order under subsection (2) of that section.\n(3) The disciplinary provisions applicable to barristers shall include provision enabling a barrister who has been excluded from criminal legal aid work under this section to apply for an order terminating his exclusion . . .\n(4) In this section—\n(a) the reference to a disciplinary tribunal shall be construed in accordance with section 41(5); . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In this section “criminal legal aid work” means the provision under arrangements made for the purposes of Part 1 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 of—\n(a) advice or assistance described in section 13 or 15 of that Act, or\n(b) representation for the purposes of criminal proceedings.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 41, 42 substituted by Legal Aid Act 1988 (c. 34, SIF 70:1), s. 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 42(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 5 para. 30(2); S.I. 2013/453, art. 3(h) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2013/534, art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 42(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 5 para. 30(2); S.I. 2013/453, art. 3(h) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2013/534, art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 42(3) repealed (2.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt.I (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 3(b) (with Sch. 2 para. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 42(4)(b) repealed (2.4.2001) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt.I (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 2001/916, art. 3(b) (with Sch. 2 para. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 42(5) inserted (1.4.2013) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 5 para. 30(3); S.I. 2013/453, art. 3(h) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2013/534, art. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/61/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:54.512365+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}