How to apply for a personal licence
List of professionals
When you apply for a personal licence, you must provide two passport sized photographs. One of the photographs must be endorsed (countersigned) as a true likeliness of you by a solicitor or notary, a person of standing in the community or an individual with a professional qualification that are acceptable to countersignature a personal licence photograph. Please note that your photo cannot be countersigned by a relative, spouse or partner.
The signatory must write the following on the back of one photograph:
- I (name of person), (job title) confirm this photograph to be a true likeness of (applicant’s name). (Signature of person), (date)
Acceptable countersignatures for photo ID for a personal licence:
- Accountants
- Airline pilots
- Articled clerk of a limited company
- Assurance agent of recognised company
- Bank/building society official
- Barrister
- British computer society (BCS) - Professional grades which are Associate (AMBCS), Member (MBCS), Fellow (FBCS) (PN 25/2003)
- Broker
- Chairman/director of limited company
- Chemist
- Chiropodist
- Christian science practitioner
- Commissioner of oaths
- Councillor: local or county
- Civil servant (permanent)
- Dentist
- Designated premises supervisors
- Director/Manager of a VAT registered Charity
- Director/manager/personnel officer of a VAT registered Company
- Engineer (with professional qualifications)
- Fire service official
- Funeral director
- Insurance agent (full time) of a recognised company
- Journalist
- Justice of the Peace
- Legal secretary (members and fellows of the Institute of legal secretaries)
- Local government officer
- Manager/personnel officer (of a limited company)
- Member of Parliament
- Merchant navy officer
- Minister of a recognised religion
- Nurse (RGN and RMN)
- Officer of the armed services (active or retired)
- Optician
- Person with honours (for example: OBE, MBE)
- Person who holds a professional qualification
- Personal licence holders
- Photographer (professional)
- Police officer
- Post office official
- President/secretary of a recognised organisation
- Salvation army officer
- Social worker
- Solicitor
- Surveyor
- Teacher, lecturer
- Trade union officer
- Travel agency (qualified)
- Valuers and auctioneers (fellow and associate members of the incorporated society)
- Warrant officers and chief petty officers
Last updated: 14/05/2025 09:34
