Commentary on Sections Part 3 - Regulation of Health and Adult Social Care Services Licensing procedure Section 89 - Revocation of licence
765.This section provides Monitor with the powers to revoke a licence, either because the licence holder has requested this, or because the provider has failed to comply with a licence condition. A revocation provision is common to regulatory regimes that rely on a licence to deliver regulatory functions.
766.It is intended that Monitor will not automatically revoke the licence of a provider at their request where the continuity of services they are providing is required. In this way, providers of such services will not be able to avoid their obligations to provide such services simply by requesting revocation of their licence.
767.It is also intended that before revoking a licence for failure to comply with a condition of it, Monitor will first consider whether it could address the situation using its licence enforcement powers.