Part III Legal Aid
Legal aid complaints
42F1 Exclusion of barristers from legal aid work.
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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 F5criminal legal aid work , either temporarily or for a specified period, if it determines that there is good reason for the exclusion arising out of—
a
his conduct in connection with any such services as are mentioned in section 40(1), or
b
his professional conduct generally.
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.
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In this section—
a
the reference to a disciplinary tribunal shall be construed in accordance with section 41(5); F3. . .
b
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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—
a
advice or assistance described in section 13 or 15 of that Act, or
b
representation for the purposes of criminal proceedings.