Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes NHS Trusts Section 51: Licensing of NHS Trusts
This section removes the exemption on NHS trusts to hold a license from NHS England (previously Monitor).
	Subsection (2) inserts a new section 87A into the 2012 Act, which requires NHS England to treat any new NHS Trusts as if they had applied for a license under section 85 of the 2012 Act and had met the criteria for being granted a license set out under section 86.
	Subsection (2) also requires NHS England to treat existing NHS Trusts as if they had been established on the day of commencement of section 51(1) of the Act for the purposes of licenses under section 85 and the application of section 87A(1).