diff --git a/lib/Cake/Model/ModelValidator.php b/lib/Cake/Model/ModelValidator.php
index 692041954..0116910ad 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Model/ModelValidator.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Model/ModelValidator.php
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ App::uses('CakeValidationSet', 'Model/Validator');
  * @package       Cake.Model
  * @link          http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/data-validation.html
  */
-class ModelValidator implements ArrayAccess {
+class ModelValidator implements ArrayAccess, IteratorAggregate {
 
 /**
  * Holds the CakeValidationSet objects array
@@ -470,4 +470,13 @@ class ModelValidator implements ArrayAccess {
 		unset($this->_fields[$field]);
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Returns an iterator for each of the fields to be validated
+ *
+ * @return ArrayIterator
+ **/
+	public function getIterator() {
+		$this->_parseRules();
+		return new ArrayIterator($this->_fields);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Model/ModelValidationTest.php b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Model/ModelValidationTest.php
index 0b5c84c95..b71d0858f 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Model/ModelValidationTest.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Model/ModelValidationTest.php
@@ -1789,4 +1789,31 @@ class ModelValidationTest extends BaseModelTest {
 		$this->assertFalse(isset($Validator['title']));
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Tests it is possible to iterate a validation object
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testIterator() {
+		$this->loadFixtures('Article');
+		$TestModel = new Article();
+		$Validator = $TestModel->validator();
+
+		$i = 0;
+		foreach ($Validator as $field => $rules) {
+			if ($i === 0) {
+				$this->assertEquals('user_id', $field);
+			}
+			if ($i === 1) {
+				$this->assertEquals('title', $field);
+			}
+			if ($i === 2) {
+				$this->assertEquals('body', $field);
+			}
+			$this->assertInstanceOf('CakeValidationSet', $rules);
+			$i++;
+		}
+		$this->assertEquals(3, $i);
+	}
+
 }