{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-85",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-85.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/7",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012",
  "path": "section/85",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Application for licence",
  "text": "(1) A person seeking to hold a licence under this Chapter must make an application to NHS England.\n(2) The application must be made in such form, and contain or be accompanied by such information, as NHS England requires.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 85(1) substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 5 para. 49; S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 85(2) substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 5 para. 49; S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 85 in force at 1.4.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/671, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 85 in force at 1.1.2014 by S.I. 2013/2896, art. 2(1)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/section/85",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:58.603352+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."
}