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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-welsh-language-forms-and-documents-regulations-1994/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/117",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Welsh Language Forms and Documents) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-welsh-language-forms-and-documents-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purpose of section 710B(8), 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);\n(iii) a person certified by a person mentioned in sub–paragraphs (i) and (ii) above to be known to him to be competent to translate the document into English; or\n(iv) in the case of a translation obtained by the registrar of companies pursuant to section 710B(4), the person who has translated 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; or\n(iv) a person certified by a person mentioned in sub–paragraphs (i) to (iii) above, to be known to him to be competent to translate the document into English.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/117/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:42:39.660170+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."
}