{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-forms-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-forms-amendment-regulations-1990/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/572",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-forms-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) From 1st April 1990, for the purposes of the provisions set out in paragraph (2) below, a translation of a document into English shall be certified to be a correct translation:—\n(a) if the translation was made in the United Kingdom, by:—\n(i) a notary public in any part of the United Kingdom;\n(ii) a solicitor (if the translation was made in Scotland), a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales (if it was made in England or Wales), or a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland (if it was made in Northern Ireland); or\n(iii) a person certified by a person mentioned above to be known to him to be competent to translate the document into English; or\n(b) if the translation was made outside the United Kingdom, by:—\n(i) a notary public;\n(ii) a person authorised in the place where the translation was made to administer an oath;\n(iii) any of the British officials mentioned in section 6 of the Commissioners for Oaths Act 1889;\n(iv) a person certified by a person mentioned in sub-subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii) of this subparagraph to be known to him to be competent to translate the document into English.\n(2) The provisions referred to in paragraph (1) above are sections 228(2)(f), 242(1), 243(4) and 702(1) of the 1985 Act and paragraph 6 of Part II of Schedule 9 to that Act.\n(3) From 1st April 1990 regulation 6 of the 1985 Regulations is revoked so far as it refers to sections 241(3)(b) and 700(2) of the Companies Act 1985, but this revocation shall not apply in relation to the accounts of a company in respect of a financial year or accounting reference period of the company which began before 23rd December 1989, as the case may be.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1889 c. 10; section 6 was amended by the Oaths and Evidence (Overseas Authorities and Countries Act 1963 (c. 27), section 3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/572/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:23:56.007947+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."
}