Referees must work in a recognised profession or be 'a person of good standing in their community':
- Accountant
- Airline Pilot
- Articled Clerk of a limited company
- Assurance agent of recognised company
- Bank/building society official
- Barrister
- Chairman/director of limited company
- Chiropodist
- Local Councillor
- Civil servant (permanent)
- Dentist
- Director/Manager/Personnel Officer of a VAT registered Company
- Engineer (with professional qualifications)
- Financial services intermediary (such as stockbroker or insurance broker)
- Fire service official
- Funeral director
- Insurance agent (full time) of a recognised company.
- Journalist
- Justice of the Peace
- Legal secretary (associate member or fellow of the Institute of legal secretaries and PAs)
- Licensee of public house
- Local government officer
- Manager/Personnel officer (of limited company)
- Member, associate or fellow of a professional body
- Member of Parliament/Member of Scottish Parliament
- Merchant Navy officer
- Minister of a recognised religion
- Nurse (RGN and RMN)
- Officer of the armed services
- Optician
- Paralegal – certified paralegal, qualified paralegal or associate memer of the institute of Paralegals
- Person with honours (such as OBE, MBE)
- Pharmacist
- Police officer
- Post Office official
- President/Secretary of a recognized organisation
- Salvation Army officer
- Social worker
- Solicitor
- Surveyor
- Teacher, lecturer
- Trade union officer
- Travel agent (qualified)
- Warrant officers and Chief Petty Officers