Health and Social Care Act 2012

97 Conditions: supplementary

(1) The standard or special conditions of a licence under this Chapter may, in particular, include conditions—

(a) requiring the licence holder to pay to Monitor such fees of such amounts as Monitor may determine in respect of the exercise by Monitor of its functions under this Chapter,

(b) requiring the licence holder to comply with any requirement imposed on it by Monitor under Chapter 6 (financial assistance in special administration cases),

(c) requiring the licence holder to do, or not to do, specified things or things of a specified description (or to do, or not to do, any such things in a specified manner) within such period as may be specified in order to prevent anti-competitive behaviour in the provision of health care services for the purposes of the NHS which is against the interests of people who use such services,

(d) requiring the licence holder to give notice to the Office of Fair Trading before entering into an arrangement under which, or a transaction in consequence of which, the licence holder’s activities, and the activities of one or more other businesses, cease to be distinct activities,

(e) requiring the licence holder to provide Monitor with such information as Monitor considers necessary for the purposes of the exercise of its functions under this Part,

(f) requiring the licence holder to publish such information as may be specified or as Monitor may direct,

(g) requiring the licence holder to charge for the provision of health care services for the purposes of the NHS in accordance with the national tariff (see section 116),

(h) requiring the licence holder to comply with other rules published by Monitor about the charging for the provision of health care services for the purposes of the NHS,

(i) requiring the licence holder—

(i) to do, or not to do, specified things or things of a specified description (or to do, or not to do, any such things in a specified manner) within such period as may be specified in order to ensure the continued provision of one or more of the health care services that the licence holder provides for the purposes of the NHS,

(ii) to give Monitor notice (of such period as may be determined by or under the licence) of the licence holder’s intention to cease providing a health care service for the purposes of the NHS, and

(iii) if Monitor so directs, to continue providing that service for a period determined by Monitor,

(j) about the use or disposal by the licence holder of assets used in the provision of health care services for the purposes of the NHS in order to ensure the continued provision of one or more of the health care services that the licence holder provides for those purposes, and

(k) about the making by the licence holder of investment in relation to the provision of health care services for the purposes of the NHS in order to ensure the continued provision of one or more of the health care services that the licence holder provides for those purposes.

(2) In subsection (1) “specified” means specified in a condition.

(3) Monitor must not include a condition under subsection (1)(c) that requires the licence holder (A) to provide another licence holder with access to facilities of A.

(4) A condition under subsection (1)(d)—

(a) may be included only in the licence of an NHS foundation trust or a body which (or part of which) used to be an NHS trust established under section 25 of the National Health Service Act 2006, and

(b) ceases to have effect at the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which it is included in the licence.

(5) The references in subsection (1)(d) to the activities of a licence holder or other business include a reference to part of the activities concerned.

(6) The references in subsections (1)(d) and (5) to the activities of a business include a reference to the activities of an NHS foundation trust in so far as its activities would not otherwise be the activities of a business.

(7) A condition of a licence under this Chapter may provide that it is to have effect, or cease to have effect, at such times and in such circumstances as may be determined by or under the conditions.