Do I need a TV licence?

goral

If someone has only foreign tv, e.g. German. Can still need TV Licence?
TV Licence says: yes, you still need. But when I ask TV Licence, I already pay for this TV in Germany, so why I should pay twice?
And what license does the TV license to charge for TV from another country?
Nobody answered me but said: You have to pay!
So what is it, do I have to pay or not?
If so, on what legal basis, who and when gave the private organization (TV Licence) a license to broadcast foreign programs and collect fees?

JJ_Egan

Its receiving a broadcast .
Legal basis is UK law .

goral

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Its receiving a broadcast .
Legal basis is UK law .

Receiving any broadcast?
What is broadcast?

JJ_Egan

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.

cajef

goral wrote: »

What is broadcast?

You need a licence for any program being received live either by terrestrial or satellite transmission by someone in the UK whether it is from China/America/ Timbuktu or Germany that is the UK law.

goral

Thank god we don't need a license to breathe.

cajef
Do you have a link to this law?

And why for example I need pay twice?

oldernonethewiser

goral wrote: »

Thank god we don't need a license to breathe.

cajef
Do you have a link to this law?

And why for example I need pay twice?

Paying twice?





Part 4 of the Communications Act 2003 - have a read

goral

Yes twice. I already pay for licence in Germany and what you say I should pay in UK.

I am not a lawyer, and I do not understand the provisions of this law very much, but there is nothing about licence for any program being received live either by terrestrial or satellite transmission by someone in the UK whether it is from China/America/ Timbuktu or Germany.
Only about licence issue by BBC.

boo_star

goral wrote: »

Yes twice. I already pay for licence in Germany and what you say I should pay in UK.

I am not a lawyer, and I do not understand the provisions of this law very much, but there is nothing about licence for any program being received live either by terrestrial or satellite transmission by someone in the UK whether it is from China/America/ Timbuktu or Germany.
Only about licence issue by BBC.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/363

A television receiver must not be installed or used unless the installation and use of the receiver is authorised by a licence under this Part.

If you don't have a licence, it isn't "authorised by a licence."

And pay particular note to it not stating that it needs to be watching a channel from the BBC, ITV, or from Germany.

oldernonethewiser

goral wrote: »

Yes twice. I already pay for licence in Germany and what you say I should pay in UK.

I am not a lawyer, and I do not understand the provisions of this law very much, but there is nothing about licence for any program being received live either by terrestrial or satellite transmission by someone in the UK whether it is from China/America/ Timbuktu or Germany.
Only about licence issue by BBC.

No need to be a lawyer.


If you are watching TV as it is broadcast in the UK, or using the BBC iPlayer then you need a licence.


It is that simple.