XrayAlpha:
Previous RTFs on this list:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/2013050...0v34%20(2).pdf are allowed to certify your documents until 7th April 2015.
Having been through this in the last few months our local flying school instructors have been signing our forms and it took 3 weeks for my new blue licence to arrive. You only need the photocopy of pages of your logbook if you are claiming for any of the new ratings where you will need to show your experience.
It's not as hard as it might seem!