Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes Competition Section 85: Removal of CMA’s involvement in licensing etc.
This section amends the 2012 Act regarding NHS licensing. The licence contains conditions for providers of NHS services, including NHS foundation trusts and other providers. All NHS foundation trusts and most other providers of NHS services (but not NHS trusts) must hold a provider licence.
	Subsection (2) removes the need for Monitor (which is being merged into NHS England as part of this Act), to obtain the consent of the applicant to include a special condition in the licence, or to obtain the consent of a licence holder before modifying a special condition of a licence.
	Subsection (3) repeals subsections (6) to (9) of section 100 of the 2012 Act. These subsections allow for licence holders to object to amendments to the standard licence conditions and apply certain conditions to Monitor in relation to those objections. It also removes references to section 101 in subsection (11) of section 100.
	Subsection (4) repeals section 101 of the 2012 Act, which allows Monitor to refer contested licence conditions to the CMA.
	Subsection (5) amends section 103, subsection 3 in the 2012 Act to refer to licensing powers being transferred from Monitor to NHS England and to take account of the repeal of section 101 and Schedule 10 of the 2012 Act.
	Subsection (6) removes references to section 142 from section 141 of the 2012 Act. Section 142 is repealed by subsection (7).
	Subsection (8) removes paragraphs (d) and (j) of section 304(5) of the 2012 Act, which reference the regulation-making powers in the repealed sections 100(7) and 142 of that Act.
	Subsection (9) repeals Schedule 10 of the 2012 Act, which sets out the process for Monitor’s referrals to the CMA in relation to contested licence conditions or a contested levy, as the ability to refer to the CMA in these cases is being removed via the repeal of sections 100(6) to (9) and 142 of that Act.