{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-surgeons-qualifications-european-recognition-and-knowledge-of-language-regulations-2015/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/veterinary-surgeons-qualifications-european-recognition-and-knowledge-of-language-regulations-2015/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Insertion of section 5ZBA",
  "text": "After section 5B, insert—\n“Requirement to demonstrate knowledge of language\n5ZBA. (1) This section applies where—\n(a) the registrar has a serious and concrete doubt about whether a person has a knowledge of language sufficient to practise as a veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom, as mentioned in section 5A(1)(e), section 5B(1)(f) and section 6(1)(d); or\n(b) the registrar is not satisfied that evidence provided by a person under section 5A(3)(f) or paragraph 5(3)(e) of Schedule 1B shows that person to have a knowledge of language sufficient to practise as a veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom.\n(2) The registrar may—\n(a) require the person to demonstrate that that person has a knowledge of language sufficient to practise as a veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom; and\n(b) refuse to register that person in the register until that person has done so.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 18.1.2016, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/2073/regulation/5",
    "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."
}