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[mini93]

this was in a list of the worls stupidest laws think about it...you need a licence to use your peepers to watch a box on the cabinate flickering at different rates and dodgy sound waves n such

its just plane old stupid!

[TJenkos]

Ah screw it you're never going to get caught!

[Amy]

Ah screw it you're never going to get caught!

On a laptop, with it's own power supply, that he takes into Uni to use for work, possibly not.....



But twelve students in my sister's halls were fined for not having a TV license while she was at Uni. They enforced a rule that EVERY student must have their own license regardless of them living in the same building. Because they were all paying rent on separate rooms, they equated it to a council block of flats, where it was a single building, but every resident has to pay a TV license.....

One family took them to court, but didn't win and had to pay the fine and all costs.........

[Jammy]

My cousin got a fine that far exceeded the cost of a TV licence whilst he was in the halls at Uni.

[B-shaw]

I have a TV in my room running of its own outdoor aerial.. I havent got my own TV license, Guessing this will be coverd off the 1 for the main tv?

Never really thought about it before to be honest lol. The amount of things ive had to fill in for Tv licences is silly, when i bought a monitor for my PC that had no way of using as a tv i had to fill a thing in then.. but suprisingly when i bought my samsung Tv from argos i filled nothing in :S

[Dan]

A licence covers a household. That includes all the family permanantly residing at the address (including those temporarily staying somewhere else such as a uni while using portable equipment) and staying guests but not other people renting rooms in the same building or home as the family, and possibly not emplyees such as Au-Pairs, I'm not sure about that last bit. There is a difference between a lodger and a renter too but again I'm not sure exactly what it is.

[CharlieBrown]

As far as im aware if the door to a seperate room in the house/flat that is rented is a lockable door then you need seerate licences.

If the doors done have locks then you can share a communal licence.



And as for paying a licence fee, dosnt it go tawards the BBC making programs for us to watch, whats wrong with that?

(And yes I am assuming that it works as easily as that )

[Ethel]

Students in university accommodation are an easy target. The licensing authority knows when there will be a new influx to fleece and the university will cooperate by providing access - multiple convictions for an afternoon's work, result

A TV adapter & a laptop would make things much more difficult for them.

The Ritz hotel will only need one licence of course.

[mini_lover]

I live in an 8 bedroom semi detatched house and all the rooms have locks on the doors, we all have individual tv's in our bedrooms and a larger one in the lounge.

We have paid a licence, but as a house, never really occured to me to think about it really.

The house it let out as a joint tenacy though, so I supposed it is viewed as a one complete house and not 8 flats contained as a house...

Not that im too bothered, only there for another two months

[Dan]

The Ritz hotel will only need one licence of course.

But it's a commercial, multi-occupancy licence like a prison, school or hospital would need and costs a lot more. Personally I'm glad there are no adverts on the BBC. I think that getting 7 or so TV channels providing original content and hundreds of radio stations for a hundred and something quid a year is a far better deal than getting however many Sky channels all showing the same repeated American junk time and again. All for 40 - 60 quid a month and then having to pay a bit extra if a movie that you might actually want to see comes on and still having adverts to sit through, and programme sponsorship and placement deals into the bargain. Actually I think the BBC would be better off dropping one channel and putting on less repeats, I'd still be happy with the price.

Edited by Dan, 13 March 2008 - 01:04 PM.

[Ethel]

If you get 1 council tax bill I guess you're one household.

[mini_lover]

If you get 1 council tax bill I guess you're one household.

Yeah we do

[mini_lover]

My sister who in Halls at Myscercough Uni, gets hounded at the beginning of every new year by them. She doesnt have a tv (seriously) and informs them that shes doesnt.

But she still gets loads of threatning letters concerning the 'bill' and the license and coming into her Halls to look. She got so many one year that my mum rang up and complained about them.

Tis just a bit rude of them to be honest

[Ethel]

I wasn't aware there was a separate commercial licence, don't think that's always been the case?

There are lots of people (on council estates mostly ) who pay the licence fee but only watch Sky Sports and Jezza Kyle - they're subsidising Radio 4 & 5 listeners not to mention Ready, Steady, Cook!

I'd sooner see the Beeb supported through direct taxation to produce programs of educational and social value. We already have the technology to provide pay to view to save us from the Andrex puppy.

[koss]

When you purchase a tv licence, it states that an inspector has the right to inspect your set at any convenient time.
So if you don't have a licence then he has not got the right. People end up in court mostly by admitting that they have a telly.
If you did not have a licence and you got the knock at the door you could politely say, its not convenient at the moment.
The inspector will tell you that he/she will come back with a warrant and a police officer, but I don't think it will happen.

My mate was an tv licence inspector for a few years. Debt collector for the gas board now.

by the way I have a licence and would not try the above method.