A terminal apparatus in a wireless communication system having a first and second base station group, and for which access is permitted for a specific base station, and not for a base station other than the specific base station, in the base station belonging to the second base station group, including: a reception unit which receives an identifier from any of base stations belonging to the first base station group; and a detection unit which executes base station detection processing for the second base station group, if the received identifier is an identifier of a base station corresponding to the specific base station in the base station belonging to the first base station group, and restrict execution of the base station detection processing, if not the identifier of the base station corresponding to the specific base station in the base station belonging to the first base station group.