{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/section-86",
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  "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/86",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "86",
  "heading": "Licensing criteria",
  "text": "(1) NHS England must set and publish the criteria which must be met by a person in order for that person to be granted a licence under this Chapter.\n(2) NHS England may revise the criteria and, if it does so, must publish them as revised.\n(3) NHS England may not set or revise the criteria unless the Secretary of State has by order approved the criteria or (as the case may be) revised criteria.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 86(1)-(3) substituted (1.7.2022) by Health and Care Act 2022 (c. 31), s. 186(6), Sch. 5 para. 50; S.I. 2022/734, reg. 2(a), Sch. (with regs. 6, 13, 29, 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 86 in force at 1.4.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/671, art. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 86 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/86",
    "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."
}