уважаемые профессии

[mi_b]

В Британии некоторые бюрократические действия, вроде получения нового паспорта, требуют чтобы заявка была заверена несколькими "людьми уважаемой профессии", которые поручатся, что заявителя действительно так и зовут или что он добропорядочный человек ("of good character"). "уважаемой профессии" - это мой (неудачный) перевод "has professional standing". Есть специальный официальный список профессий, которые считаются "уважаемыми", некоторые неочевидные я примерно перевел:

Accountant
Articled clerk of a limited company (бегает за пивом для аудитора или адвоката)
Assurance agent of recognised company
Bank/building society official
Barrister (подвид адвоката)
British Computer Society (BCS) - Professional grades which are Аssociate(AMBCS), Member (MBCS), Fellow (FBCS)(PN 25/2003)
Broker
Chairman/director of limited company
Chemist
Chiropodist
Christian Science practitioner (это такие люди, которые лечат все болезни молитвами)
Commissioner for oaths (нотариус)
Councillor: local or county
Civil servant (permanent)
Dentist
Designated Premises Supervisors (сташий продавец в ларьке, где есть винный отдел)
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) (секретарша у адвоката)
Local government officer
Manager/Personnel officer (of limited company)
Member of Parliament
Merchant Navy officer
Minister of a recognised religion
Nurse (SRN and SEN)
Officer of the armed services (active or retired) - единственные пенсионеры в списке, кроме Героев Соц Труда
Optician
Person with honours (e.g. OBE, MBE etc.) (Герои Социалистического Труда + состарившееся лакеи из Виндзора)
Personal Licensee Holders (держатель ларька с винным отделом)
Photographer (professional)
Police officer
Post Office official
President/Secretary of a recognised organisation
Salvation Army officer
Social worker
Solicitor (подвид адвоката)
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 (прапорщики)

Comments

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

Что это такое, даже подумать страшно: Christian Science practitioner.

[mi-b.livejournal.com]

Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science in 1866, and thereafter was its first practitioner.

http://www.christianscience.org/WhatsaPrac.htm

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

A Christian Science practitioner is an individual who follows the practice of healing through prayer according to the teachings of Christian Science. This usually takes the form of what is called Christian Science treatment, a specifically focused prayer involving the affirmation of absolute spiritual or metaphysical truth of the spiritual perfection of God, and of man in God's image and likeness. Treatment may rely on passages of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, including the Lord's Prayer and familiar psalms, such as the 23rd and 91st. But it may also simply be a period of silent communion. There is no formula and treatment can be given in absentia, including by telephone or via e-mail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science_practitioner