PART 2 Requirements as to procurement, patient choice and competition

8 Assistance or support for purchasing activities
1 This paragraph applies where a relevant body has arrangements for a person to assist or support the body in the exercise of its functions, in so far as those functions involve the commissioning of health care services for the purposes of the NHS.
2 Where paragraph (1) applies, the relevant body must ensure that the person acts in accordance with the requirements in regulations 2, 3, 4(2) to (4), 5 to 7, 9 and 10, in so far as they apply in relation to an activity performed by that person.