No TV so No Licence but still getting final demand notices
- Thread starter Peter54
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This whole area is heartless. Friend (disabled) was entitled to free license but was unaware of how to get it until he got outside help. Was approved for the license but while waiting got a summons for no license. Court did not consider his written submission and duly fined him, plus he had to buy a license while he waited for the wheels of government to get around to issuing him with the license he was entitled to. Ended up with two licenses and would not refund the second one!
Fair does not come into it, if you have any equipment they will hound you. Friend no longer with us, not blaming this but the stress it caused was criminal.
Not if it isn't capable of picking up a signal you don't. The key is having equipment that can pick up a tv signal, whether you watch it or not. If you can't get tv though, no license needed.
For example if you have a tv with a dvd player which has been rendered incaple of picking up live tv, no license needed.
This is totally incorrect.
The Saorview ads on TV mustn't be working.
Saorview is Digital Terrestial Television, received from the exact same masts as before by the same aerials.
Read the first line here:
http://www.saorview.ie/equipment/
Again, this is totally incorrect.
Indeed, the opposite is the case, as more rooftop aerials may be required.
I myself may have to get one installed to receive DTT.
Ring your local tv licence office, give them your name and address and state that you do not have any television reception equipment. I did it a couple of years ago, it doesn't entirely stop them but the harrassment did ease within the year. The hard part is trying to work out which is your "local" tv licence office. Being in Carlow my first guess was Waterford ... no, second guess was Dublin .... no - turns out it was Birr 
That was inded the case prior to the 2009 act which cleared this up. Previously all they needed was to show the presence of an apparatus capable of receiving a TV signal to require a license. As stated in a previous post, the 2009 cleared this up to include the term 'television set', but you should be aware, the definition of a set in the act is:
It was reported at the time that this wording was added to that people watching TV on PCs, laptops, etc would fall under the act.
That was the point!
Ah, where did I say whether an aerial was involved or not?
There is no need to sign their junk letters.
You said the act was changed to include people watching TV on a computer. I simply made the point that definition includes all computers even those not used for watching TV. You feel you implied that, I felt it needed emphasis. If you're still not happy, may I suggest street countdown as an outlet.