{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-surgeons-qualifications-european-recognition-and-knowledge-of-language-regulations-2015/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-surgeons-qualifications-european-recognition-and-knowledge-of-language-regulations-2015/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/2073",
  "legislation_title": "The Veterinary Surgeons’ Qualifications (European Recognition and Knowledge of Language) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-surgeons-qualifications-european-recognition-and-knowledge-of-language-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of section 5B",
  "text": "In section 5B (registration of Community rights entitled persons: knowledge and skill), in subsection (1)—\n(a) in the opening words, after the second “entitled”, insert “under this section”;\n(b) for paragraphs (b) and (c), substitute—\n“(b) the person’s case falls within regulation 3(8)(a), (c) or (e) of the European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2015;\n(c) regulations 27 to 34 of those Regulations apply to the person by reason of the operation of regulation 3(5) of those Regulations;”; and\n(c) at the end, before the full stop, insert—\n“;\n(e) the registrar, where an alert has been received under Article 56a of Directive 2005/36/EC in respect of that person, is of the opinion that the substance of the alert does not render the person unfit to practise veterinary surgery; and\n(f) the registrar does not have a serious and concrete doubt that the person has a knowledge of language sufficient to practise as a veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 18.1.2016, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/2059."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/2073/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:28:40.165762+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."
}