Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes NHS Foundation Trusts Section 61: Licensing of NHS Foundation Trusts
This section amends section 88 of the 2012 Act. Section 88 requires that NHS England must treat an NHS foundation trust in existence at commencement of this section, or an NHS trust which becomes a foundation trust at a later date, as having made an application and met the criteria for a licence. As a result of this, the foundation trusts will not have to make a licence application.
	The new subsection (1) requires NHS England to apply this provision both when a new Foundation Trust is established under section 36 of the NHS Act 2006, but also when a Foundation Trust is created as a result of a merger under section 56 or a separation under section 56B of the 2012 Act.