The Veterinary Surgeons’ Qualifications (European Recognition and Knowledge of Language) Regulations 2015

Amendment of section 5B U.K.

4.  In section 5B (registration of Community rights entitled persons: knowledge and skill), in subsection (1)—

(a) in the opening words, after the second “entitled”, insert “under this section”;

(b) for paragraphs (b) and (c), substitute—

“(b) the person’s case falls within regulation 3(8)(a), (c) or (e) of the European Union (Recognition of Professional Qualifications) Regulations 2015(1);

(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

(c) at the end, before the full stop, insert—

“;

(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

(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”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 4 in force at 18.1.2016, see reg. 1(b)

(1)

S.I. 2015/2059.