Administration of Justice Act 1985 (c. 61)
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30(1)Section 42 (exclusion of barristers from legal aid work) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsections (1) and (3) for “providing representation funded by the Legal Services Commission as part of the Criminal Defence Service” substitute “criminal legal aid work”.
(3)At the end insert—
“(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—
(a)advice or assistance described in section 13 or 15 of that Act, or
(b)representation for the purposes of criminal proceedings.”