The present invention provides an access control method in user equipment and user equipment. The present invention is capable of avoiding meaningless connection requests of RNAU, so as to improve the utilization efficiency of communication resources. The access control method in user equipment includes: if a result of access control check indicates that access is barred, then starting an access barring timer; and if it is considered that the access barring timer is in a non-running state, then determining, according to at least one of conditions, whether to trigger RAN Notification Area Updating (RNAU), where the conditions are as follows: whether a current connected state of the UE is an inactive state; whether an RNAU timer started when the UE enters the inactive state is in an running state; whether a cell in which the UE currently resides belongs to a RAN Notification Area (RNA).