TV Licence Question

angel290385

Hi.

I'm living in private halls of residence. They are 3 other people in my flat - all seperate tenants. We have to buy the tv licence for the TV in the common room in our flat but I would like to know:

If i have a TV in my room as well do I have to get a separate licenece? The reason I ask is because in my halls last year they provided a licence for the communal area but if you wanted your own TV you had to get another one.

Help?

Bossyboots

It looks to me as though you will need a separate licence http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/students.jsp

angel290385

Yeah it does look like it, but that is so unfair it's just ridiculous.

Bossyboots

The problem is that you are separate tenants. If it was a joint tenancy you would not need the second licence for your room.

wallace_3

You all need a seperate license to have a TV in your bedroom, but I *think* if you have a license for your bedroom, you don't also need a license for the communal area.

It would be best to call TV licensing and check though.

surfcat

It largely depends on who has how many TVs. Certainly, there need to be separate licences for each room.

So if there are 2 TVs, one in your room and one communal, then YOU should buy one licence. Then I think you could say the TV in the kitchen was also yours. I can't imagine TV Licensing taking 'The occupier of the kitchen' to court for no licence. Who would they write to?

jr666

Each Locked door needs its own tv licence. End of story

scottishchick27

I was in a Halls of residence and they told me I'd need a separate license but I didn't get one, how are they going to check? They have bigger fish to fry.

bbruce

They know there could be quite a bit of revenue to be had, so they walk round the perimeter of the halls with hand-held detectors. If your room is nowhere near the perimeter you may be lucky as all the signals could get mixed. However, I wouldn't put it past them to switch on the detectors when they gain access to visit a victim!

Bossyboots

wallace wrote:

You all need a seperate license to have a TV in your bedroom, but I *think* if you have a license for your bedroom, you don't also need a license for the communal area.

It would be best to call TV licensing and check though.

If you go to the link I have put, it states that a separate licence for the communal area is also required.

xela_17

bbruce wrote:

They know there could be quite a bit of revenue to be had, so they walk round the perimeter of the halls with hand-held detectors.

Does anyone have any proof that these detectors actually exist? I always thought that it was a myth and they just went by their computer records, i.e. any address where they didn't have a record of a tv licence they then checked? Does anyone know different?