{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-health-service-licensing-and-pricing-regulations-2013/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-health-service-licensing-and-pricing-regulations-2013/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111539743",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Licensing and Pricing) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-national-health-service-licensing-and-pricing-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (Licensing and Pricing) Regulations 2013, and come into force on the day after the day on which these Regulations are made.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Health and Social Care Act 2012;\n“business year” means—\n(a) in relation to an NHS foundation trust or an NHS trust, a financial year; and\n(b) in relation to any other person who provides health care services for the purposes of the NHS, a period of more than six months in respect of which that person or, if applicable, the business of which it forms part, prepares or is required to prepare accounts;\n“relevant year” means—\n(a) for the purposes of regulation 2, the last complete financial year preceding the date on which Monitor publishes a notice under section 100(2) of the Act (modification of standard conditions), or, where figures are not available for that financial year, the one immediately preceding it; and\n(b) for the purposes of regulation 5, the last complete financial year preceding the date on which Monitor publishes a notice under section 118(2) of the Act (consultation on proposals for the national tariff), or, where figures are not available for that financial year, the one immediately preceding it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 150(1) of the Act for the meaning of “financial year”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 64(3) and (4) of the Act for the meaning of “health care services” and “the NHS”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111539743/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:49:49.862427+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}