Part 1: Health Service in England: Integration, Collaboration and Other Changes Competition Section 82: Duty to provide assistance to the CMA
Section 82(1) inserts a new section 13SC into the NHS Act 2006.
	Section 13SC(1) places NHS England under a duty to share with the CMA regulatory information that the CMA may require, or which NHS England considers would assist the CMA, in exercising the CMA’s relevant functions. It also requires NHS England to provide any other assistance which the CMA may require in exercising its relevant functions. Section 13SC(2) defines regulatory information as information held by NHS England in relation to its functions under section 13SB(2)(a) or (b) of the NHS Act 2006 (which is being inserted by this Act, and lists NHS England’s regulatory functions) or its functions under provisions being inserted into the NHS Act 2006 by this Act in relation to the enforcement of patient choice and the oversight, support and restructuring of NHS Trusts (the new sections 6F, 27A and 27C of and Schedule 1ZA to the NHS Act 2006).
	Section 13SC(2) also defines the CMA’s relevant functions as their functions under the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002, where those functions are carried out on behalf of the CMA by the CMA Board or a CMA group (within the meaning of Schedule 4 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013).
	Section 82(2) omits Section 80 of the 2012 Act, relating to previous co-operation arrangements between Monitor and the CMA.