[F1Document assurance by [F2NHS England] or the relevant [F3integrated care board] E+W

8.—(1) Where paragraph (3) applies, the provider must provide a copy of the draft relevant document to [F2NHS England] within 30 days beginning with 1st April following the end of the reporting period.

(2) Where paragraph (3) does not apply, the provider must provide a copy of the draft relevant document to the relevant [F3integrated care board] within 30 days beginning with 1st April following the end of the reporting period.

[F4(2A) But if the draft relevant document is for the reporting period ending with 31st March 2020 the provider may provide a copy of it as required by paragraph (1) or (2) later than 30 days beginning with 1st April following the end of the reporting period.]

(3) This paragraph applies where 50% or more of the relevant health services that the provider directly provides or sub-contracts during the reporting period are provided under contracts, agreements or arrangements with [F2NHS England] (calculated by reference to the full cost to the provider of providing, either directly or through sub-contractors, the services).

(4) For the purpose of this regulation, “relevant [F3integrated care board]” means—

(a)where all the relevant health services that the provider directly provides or sub-contracts under contracts, agreements or arrangements with [F3an integrated care board] are provided under contracts, agreements or arrangements with one [F3integrated care board], that [F3integrated care board];

(b)where all the relevant health services that the provider directly provides or sub-contracts under contracts, agreements or arrangements with [F3an integrated care board] are provided under contracts, agreements or arrangements with more than one [F3integrated care board], the [F3integrated care board] which has responsibility for the largest number of persons to whom the provider has provided relevant health services during the reporting period.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(b), [F3an integrated care board] has responsibility for a person receiving health services provided by a provider if, in relation to those services, it is responsible for that person under or by virtue of section 3 (duties of [F3integrated care boards] as to commissioning certain health services) or 3A (power of [F3integrated care boards] to commission certain health services) of the 2006 Act.]