Peers and peeresses entitled to receive writs of summons to attend the House of Lords.

Members of the House of Commons.

Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Officers and servants of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Representatives to the European Parliament.

TheF1 Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints.

Persons in the Northern Ireland Civil Service receiving a salary on a scale the maximum of which is not lower than the maximum of the Grade 5 scale.

The Chief Electoral Officer and persons appointed to assist him.

The Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland.

F3The Auditor General for Scotland

The Secretary and any Director of the Northern Ireland Audit Office.

Officers employed in any capacity by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, or Commissioners of Inland Revenue.

Officers in charge of a head office in Northern Ireland of a department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

Inspectors of schools.

Inspectors appointed under section 123 of the [1969 c. 6 (N.I.)] Mines Act (Northern Ireland) 1969.

A person in Holy Orders and a regular minister of any religious denomination.

Vowed members of any religious order living in a monastery, convent or other religious community.

Practising members of a religious society or order the tenets or beliefs of which are incompatible with jury service.

Professors and members of the teaching staff of a university or institution of further education and full-time teachers in any school.

Masters of vessels, duly licensed pilots and lighthouse keepers.

The following persons, if actually practising their profession and registered (including provisionally or temporarily registered), enrolled or certified under the statutory provisions relating to that profession—

• medical practitioners;

• dentists;

• nurses;

• midwives;

• veterinary surgeons and veterinary practitioners;

• pharmaceutical chemists.

Persons aged between 65 and 70 years.