do a need a tv licence to buy a tv ?

Hammyman

balmk wrote: »

With most major high street retailers, you will be required to complete a TV license application form when you buy your TV.

I never did with the 3 TVs I've bought in the past 2 years.

moonrakerz

WHY, WHY, WHY ? do we keep getting the same inaccurate junk about TV Licences on this site ?

The Law is clear - the Law is simple (regrettably like some of the people who post the junk on this subject)

You need a TV Licence to watch or record TV as it is being broadcast FROM ANY SOURCE ! (TV here includes radio broadcast over TV channels)
That is all !

If you have a TV and you play games on it, watch DVDs on it, watch recordings that someone else has made for you (may be copyright problems here though) on it, put potted plants on it, track UFOs on it, or even just have it as an ornament you DO NOT need a licence.

asbokid

Hammyman wrote: »

I never did with the 3 TVs I've bought in the past 2 years.

Under Section 2(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 - Notification and recording of transactions - retailers are obliged to notify the Secretary of State of the Particulars of sale or lease of all television receiving equipment.

Those notifiable Particulars are defined in Schedule I of the Act as:

1 The date of the sale or letting.

2 The name and address of the buyer or hirer.

3 The address of the premises where the set is to be installed.

4 Whether the set is designed for reception in colour.

5 The name, address and registration number of the dealer.

Under Section 5 of the Act - Offences and Enforcement - it is a criminal offence for the retailer to fail to notify the Secretary of State of those Particulars:

Any person who—

(a) without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with, or with any notice given under, any of the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act; or

(b) in purported compliance therewith—

(i) knowingly or recklessly furnishes any information which is false in a material particular; or

(ii) makes or causes to be made or knowingly allows to be made any record which he knows to be false in a material particular,

shall be guilty of an Offence under the principal Act.

The retailers must notify not just the sale of television sets, but the sale of all TV recording equipment and even digital set top boxes costing just £10.

There is no stone left unturned when it comes to catching evil licence dodgers.


http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/72/introduction

hudgebadger

asbokid wrote: »

Under Section 2(1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1967 - Notification and recording of transactions - retailers are obliged to notify the Secretary of State of the Particulars of sale or lease of all television receiving equipment.

The magic words are television receiving equipment.

If it can receive then you need a licence

JJ_Egan

spike7451 wrote: »

I bought a VCR from Argos last year & was asked for my name & address,so I gave my address as Camp Bastion,Afghanistan....The bloke saw my MOD90 in my wallet & then told me not to worry about it!:D

I give an address near Hereford the one part of the country where burglars keep clear of .

jje

davester

It might be nice of you to fill out the online form on the tv licence site to say you not need a tv licence, it will stop them sending you a reminder notice and also your being open and upfront about it. I suppose that does mean anyone who fills the form out and gets caught watching live tv will get a bigger rollocking

JJ_Egan

The magic words are television receiving equipment.

If it can receive then you need a licence

No and its a very very big no .
Its if you do not if you can .
Been there done that had the TV guys in box full of as was then VCR tapes . I dont watch TV and that was the end of the matter though a letter appeared every so often .


Recent quotes by TV licensing and you will find it on-line .State clearly if you watch /receive live broadcasts by any means a licence is required . It is required to watch BBC Iplayer live but not repeat not to watch a program that was aired the day before via BBC Iplayer .

Link to the definition here .
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/

jje


jje

asbokid

hudgebadger wrote: »

The magic words are television receiving equipment.

If it can receive then you need a licence

There are some exceptions..

University students living away from home do not need a licence for a TV that is powered solely by internal batteries AND has its own aerial AND has a traffic cone safely balanced on top of it.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/filthy-grungy-smelly-students.html

cajef

hudgebadger wrote: »

If it can receive then you need a licence

You do not need a licence just for owning something that can receive TV signals, this comes up repeatedly on these forums, you can have as many pieces of equipment you want that are capable of receiving a signal but if you do not use them to receive live broadcasts as they they are being transmitted you do not need a licence.

jim22

With some of the information being given on here I don't know why anyone bothers to purchase a licence. It seems so easy to avoid-whether you are watching live tv or not.